Tag: quality
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Edmund Clarke wins Turing Award!
Wow, the guy I took compilers from as an undergraduate has just won the Turing Award for his work in model checking. How cool is that?
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Is *that* why they make you wait till you’re at 10,000 feet to turn computers on?
Boeing just announced another delay for the 787, its second or third so far depending on who you believe, so I wanted to go back to a story Kim Zetter reported a few weeks ago on the Wired Threat Level blog: Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its…
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F—ing Mac
I usually love my Mac, but right now is a big exception. When I got a new MacBook Pro earlier this year running Tiger (10.4), the migration over from my previous (two-ish year old, running 10.1 or 10.2 I think) machine went incredibly smoothly with the minor exception of no longer being able to print…