Chris K. Jester-Young

24th April
2013
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With a tail like that, you know Luna is really Mario in disguise!

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24th April
2013
24

After months and months of asking Whole Foods and Earth Fare to carry Blake’s gluten-free chicken pot pie, guess who’s first to carry it? :-) (at Kroger)

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24th March
2013
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Thanks to the awesome folks at Aldiko, I now have Aldiko Premium working on my Kindle Fire HD. :-D

Note the nice high-res app icon, which you don’t normally get with apps you sideload from your phone (on which note, I have Chrome and Instagram running on my Kindle Fire HD, courtesy of my phone :-)).

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17th October
2012
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Last day to use your Google Prepaid Card

If you have a Galaxy Nexus like I do, it came with a Google Prepaid Card (with $10 preloaded). Today’s the last day to spend that $10, so I had to frantically scramble to find a PayPass-capable merchant.

When I did a search in my area, all the hits were for places like Rite Aid, McDonald’s, etc., and I couldn’t think of a way to spend $10 there. Luckily, BP also supports PayPass, and our local BP is currently doing a $0.79 any-size-fountain-drink promotion. Nice way to top up the car and our gullets at the same time. :-)

Receipts for my Google Prepaid Card purchase

(Incidentally, since I recently topped up the car, the pump stopped at $6.95. I decided, though, that I didn’t want to waste the $1.34, so I kept the pump going. :-P)

Some final screenshots of the card’s final balance…shortly before the card was forcibly removed from the Google Wallet app:

Card details Card listing

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19th September
2012
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Hi there, i would really appreciate if you can tell me what am i supposed to do, i have chosen Grub as my boot loader and linux-3.2.9 as my kernel, and somehow i manage to get GCC on windows and Bochs 2.5.1 as my virtual machine, i need to know what should i do to start writing my OS, i am using C language, i know pretty much about the kernel but after grub and kernel i have no clue what to do?

Asked by: Anonymous

My friend Faryn says you should do it Steve Wozniak style. You’d better ask her what that means. :-P

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19th September
2012
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Where would you point a long time programmer who wanted to learn more about functional programming concepts and languages?

Asked by: Anonymous

Well, a big part of learning is diving right in. I dived right into Scheme back in 2002 (albeit only part-time, which is why I’m not a Scheme grandmaster or anything ;-)), and never looked back.

If you want some actual resources, I’ve been told that How to Design Programs and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs are both really good. I have not read through either of them, so it’s not a personal endorsement per se. Both of these books use Scheme as the language of instruction, but the concepts carry anywhere.

As for languages, any language that encourages a highly-functional style is good. So, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Clojure, or Scheme are all on my (non-exhaustive) recommended list.