Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy
via Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy – Business of Software.
Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Jul
15
Dr. Jim Taylor’s blog
Psychology of Technology
Psychology of Technology: Disconnectivity Anxiety
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Do you freak out when you lose your mobile phone signal? Do you get stressed when your Internet goes down? Are you mortified if you have to use dial-up to access your email? If so, you may be suffering from “Disconnectivity Anxiety.” Though not an official psychiatric disorder, I see it as a growing problem in our “gotta be connected 24/7″ culture. I define Disconnectivity Anxiety DA as: “a persistent and unpleasant condition characterized by worry and unease caused by periods of technological disconnection from others.”
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Fact filled, humorous, I used to watch all this girl’s vids, she’s zany zany zany
Oct
12
You’d think someone with this setup was intent on taking over the world, but no, they simply want to excell at some game!
An old Classic Story
The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
"I compared Mel’s hand-optimised programs with the same code massaged by the optimizing assembler program, and Mel’s always ran faster. That was because the "top-down" method of program design hadn’t been invented yet, and Mel wouldn’t have used it anyway. He wrote the innermost parts of his program loops first, so they would get first choice of the optimum address locations on the drum. The optimizing assembler wasn’t smart enough to do it that way."
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