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Goldfishy: Who Really Wants a Digital Home?
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Who Really Wants a Digital Home? Let me start by saying I'm not a technophobe. I work in video surveillance, I write code in multiple languages, I cross-compile C code, I browse various open source projects in my spare time, I like python's structured use of white space, etc. I'm a nerd, and an unabashed one at that. But let me be the first to say: I do not want a "digital home." Yep, that's right. I don't want a digital home. I imagined ...
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Goldfishy: October 2010
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Friday, October 15, 2010. A closer look at JPEG performance. In my previous post, I compared JPEG to the newcomers, WebP and JPEG XR. For the most part, JPEG held its own pretty well. WebP was better in a few respects, worse in a few.overall decent. JPEG XR was utterly horrible. But this got me thinking: how optimized was my JPEG encoder? What quantization tables does it use? For the discrete cosine transform, is it using integer or floating point math? The libra...
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Goldfishy: January 2010
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Thursday, January 07, 2010. A fellow poster on a forum I frequent. Often says to gravity skeptics (yes, sadly people like this exist) "well, if in doubt, jump off a cliff." Someone commented that there wasn't such a succinct retort for evolution skeptics, but I think there is:. All the intelligent design advocates die; settles that debate, I believe. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Http:/ www.neverworkintheory.org/. Elyse and Jeremy Play House.
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Goldfishy: November 2012
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Sunday, November 18, 2012. Directshow is a pretty tenacious interface, having been used for approaching two decades at this point. The official party line from Redmond is "use MediaFoundation," but it's never seemed particularly useful given that MediaFoundation is absent in older versions of Windows. I dislike most things about IMediaSample. Support for B-frames is marginal at best. I dislike how duration is represented- 100 NS units. A better way to represe...
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Goldfishy: March 2010
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Memory Corruption Makes Me Sad. Nothing makes programmers cower in fear more than memory corruption. These bugs are almost always A) fatal and B) ridiculously difficult to track down and C) hard to reproduce consistently. The combination of these three things can make you start thinking of your memory in surprisingly literal ways:. And literal in more ways than one, since your memory is "trashed" hahahaha, oh that was bad.). Here's the b...
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Goldfishy: July 2011
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Who Really Wants a Digital Home? Let me start by saying I'm not a technophobe. I work in video surveillance, I write code in multiple languages, I cross-compile C code, I browse various open source projects in my spare time, I like python's structured use of white space, etc. I'm a nerd, and an unabashed one at that. But let me be the first to say: I do not want a "digital home." Yep, that's right. I don't want a digital home. I imagined ...
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Goldfishy: May 2011
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Unroll that loop, homeboy. A month or so ago I was wrestling with a pretty thorny algorithmic problem at work. Eventually I worked out a solution that worked great on our Windows emulator, so I figured my job was done.was I ever wrong. Once I got it running on our embedded processor (a lowly ARM926EJ-S at 270 MHz), I quickly found my algorithm had some serious performance issues. So, I fired up oProfile and did some profiling. As wiki state...
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Goldfishy: December 2011
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. What do we actually know about software development? I recently saw this video on Vimeo; to say it blew my mind would be an understatement:. In it, Greg Wilson makes a compelling argument that we have a responsibility to seriously question the efficacy of the software engineering practices we employ. For example, do we know. Code reviews will really lead to better code, or are we just trusting our gut? Is pair programming effective?
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Goldfishy: May 2009
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Thursday, May 14, 2009. Despite the last couple of years being a time when "high definition" video has really gained traction, there's one surprising thing about HD video: it doesn't have an obvious definition. Dan Rayburn brings up this observation in a recent blog post. He's absolutely right. Many companies attempt to pass off 480p. Wikipedia's definition for High-definition television is a decent start:. Is a digital television. System with higher resolution.
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Goldfishy: September 2009
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From the relative safety of my fish bowl. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Programming Fail: Directory.GetFiles(). I went to demo some shiny new code. For a friend, and we both had a laugh when my program pretty much puked all over itself. Directory.GetFiles() seems like a pretty straight-forward function. The fine print of the documentation contains the gotcha:. The following list shows the behavior of different lengths for the searchPattern parameter:. OK, sure. Brilliant. Ship it, yo. Let's say you're loo...
