Archive for the 'Work' Category

Protected: Weird interviews

30Apr07

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Protected: HR interviews

23Mar07

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People who care

05Nov06

4 weeks ago my pizza guy called. Yes, ‘my pizza guy’: Max from Venus Pizza, the only halal pizzeria in the City. I ordered pizza from there about twice a week last year, so often that Max would ask, ‘The usual?’, instead of me explaining what I wanted (the #3 deal with the #12 pizza, [...]

Yet more on Subversion dump files

14Aug06

Yay, a response from the Subversion dev mailing list! They pointed me here, which is a pretty good description of the format. I’m not sure I understand why they chose to model it on RFC-822, since it’s not a very efficient format, and also because they don’t adhere to it particularly strictly. The key thing [...]

Quick hits…

16Jul06

…that have been festering all week. I told everyone at work I’m leaving end-August. Well, beginning-September is probably more like it, given that I expect September 1 to be my last day at work. Interestingly enough, I didn’t even have to initiate the OK-so-you-don’t-drink-so-what-shall-we-do-in-lieu-of-leaving-drinks conversation, EC brought it up himself (he’s probably the person I was [...]

Windows output redirection and zombie processes

26Aug05

Just a quick note — I’ve been working on a parallelized Windows build system, which farms the build out to one of several build servers. The actual compilation of code is done by MSVC6 right now (there’s been talk of moving to VS .NET 2003, but with 2005 coming out, there’s been less impetus to make [...]