Thomas Chai | thomas@terminaljunkie.com | 76 posts
Higher monetary rewards lead to higher performances? That it the most logical conclusion isn’t it? Think again. This leads me to think of my previous blog post on the Evolution of Programmer. The higher we climb up in our career ladder (which directly leads to higher monetary reward) the less we are motivated which leads [...]
May 28, 2010
High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln('Hello World') end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons 'Hello (list 'World)))) New professional #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"}; int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i) printf("%s", message[i]); printf("\n"); [...]
May 27, 2010
Impressive speed test done by Google on their Chrome browser. According to their youtube video the test are done using:- - Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed - Monitor – 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. [...]
May 27, 2010
Apple was about an inch away to its coffin in 1997, when Microsoft agreed to pump in $150mil to rescue the company, How things have turn around in less than 13 years with Apple now surpassing Microsoft in Market Capitalization. In fact, Apple is now the second largest company in US after Exxon. I bet [...]
May 27, 2010
Perhaps the most talk about topics these days for smartphones are between iPhone and Android phones and who will emerge victorious. If you were to do a Google search between those two, there are countless of blogs that argue for both sides. Perhaps the most interesting article I came across is written by Jack from [...]
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May 28, 2010