Tag Archives: computer science

Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer

I posted about this on Twit­ter, but it’s still a lit­tle astonding.

November 16, 2011 – 12:45 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84

Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Den­nis Ritchie died, of how the inno­va­tors of Com­puter Sci­ence were mostly still alive and it became a lit­tle less true.

October 24, 2011 – 10:56 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, General News, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie

One of the giants of Com­puter Sci­ence dies.

October 13, 2011 – 12:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, General News, Quick Posts | Tagged , | Comments Off

Programmers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?

The short answer is yes, the long answer is well go read the long answer.

August 18, 2011 – 9:10 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight

Let’s focus on mak­ing great soft­ware that delights the cus­tomer, ok.

July 27, 2010 – 11:43 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Computer Science and it’s Ethics or Lack Thereof

Recently, I had a class project in which I had to track down a code of ethics for my career field, com­puter sci­ence. In the course of this research, some­thing aston­ished me. First, that it was pretty much impos­si­ble to find a local com­pany that had a code of ethics for their staff pro­gram­mers and …

March 6, 2008 – 10:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments Off