tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61577189416671846952024-03-07T03:35:54.267-08:00code slateMore semi-coherent (at best) rambling from a software guy.Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-11484424920443573542009-02-07T10:26:00.000-08:002009-02-07T10:32:41.471-08:00handling layoffs the star trek way"Here's your new tunic, ensign.""Um, sir, it's red...""Report to the away team tomorrow morning."Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-72046000232805262432007-02-28T16:03:00.000-08:002007-02-28T16:15:33.489-08:00survivor answers[By popular request, here are the questions to the answers in this post.]1. Why are manhole covers round?2. There are three switches in one room and one light bulb in another. How can you tell which switch controls the bulb if you can only make one trip from the switch room to the bulb room?3. If a plane crashes right on the border of the US and Canada, in which country would you bury the Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-32197388296768387352007-02-27T09:07:00.000-08:002007-02-27T09:22:22.701-08:00mr. biteme, of the nantucket bitemes?I was helping my stepfather install the new version of real player (yeah, I know) because he absolutely had to play some ra files. At one point - and apparently I wasn't aware of this technical limitation in CODECs - it's critical that Real Networks have his e-mail address in order to play an audio file.Of course, I entered biteme@no.com. It said that address was in use.So I changed it to biteme@Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-10390069556079601012007-02-21T15:30:00.000-08:002007-02-21T15:36:04.601-08:00idiotic ui choicesImagine if you will a website, belonging to a bank. As part of their new security policy they give you a series of questions for which you are supposed to provide the answer. One of these questions asks for a name of a particular family member.Which I enter.And the website tells me my answer must be 4 characters long. But the name isn't. So the right answer to the question violates the input Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-30669469771878736992007-01-24T15:18:00.000-08:002007-01-25T07:43:37.424-08:00you don't bury survivors(Overheard at a recent interview:)So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself.Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round.Um, okay, how about your most recent project?Turn on two switches, wait a while and turn one off. If the bulb is on, it's the one left on. If the bulb is off and warm, it was the one you switched off. Otherwise it's the one you didn'tJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157718941667184695.post-18500756172041401342007-01-13T19:55:00.000-08:002007-01-14T19:33:33.580-08:00welcome to code slate (or is that code's late?)I kind of like the ambiguity in the the blog name (and domain). If you read it as "code slate", it's about writing software on a clean slate. If you read it as "code's late", well, that's also about writing software.So here's the first post - the post which nobody will read since the blog is brand spanking sparkly new. Well, somebody might (hi Mom!). Along with the usual funny pictures and randomJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315920441398918690noreply@blogger.com0