Daily Archives: January 5th, 2005

New Years Resolution

It’s not to lose weight. It’s not to quit smoking (I don’t). Or be more productive at work, or blah blah blah. None of the boilerplate ones.
Mine is simple. I want a 15 minute SLA on my kitchen sink, with at least 2 sigma reliability.

Joel Has Advice For You

Advice for Computer Science College Students. A sampling from the self-explanatory (and correct!) section entitled “Learn C before graduating.”:

if you can’t explain why while (*s++ = *t++); copies a string, or if that isn’t the most natural thing in the world to you, well, you’re programming based on superstition, as far as I’m concerned: […]