Mike Levin

Road construction on East Wacker. I think the #Transformers are...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:20:34 -0400

Road construction on East Wacker. I think the #Transformers are out.

Banana, blueberry, cherry, turnip, plumb, cabbage smoothie....

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:13:27 -0400

Banana, blueberry, cherry, turnip, plumb, cabbage smoothie. Mmmmm.

Just got a free LED flashlight app for iPhone4, bit it lights...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:22:19 -0400

Just got a free LED flashlight app for iPhone4, bit it lights the LCD screen up bright white. Big no-no. Using the “Report a problem” feature in App Store a lot more recently over minor refinement issues.

I was wondering how long Google would let this Facebook trends...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:03:00 -0400

I was wondering how long Google would let this Facebook trends for websites graph show. Guess they don’t have to worry about that after all with this leveling off (if true — don the conspiracy hat).

The new playground on 214th St is coming along well. #Inwood

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:59:14 -0400

The new playground on 214th St is coming along well. #Inwood

jewyorican: Mr Levin and his Cats Da boyz and me hangin’...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:53:28 -0400

jewyorican:

Mr Levin and his Cats

Da boyz and me hangin’ out on a lazy Saturday morning.

"The conglomeration of commercial and most open source software consumes in the neighborhood of..."

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:50:04 -0400

“The conglomeration of commercial and most open source software consumes in the neighborhood of several hundreds of millions of lines of code these days. We wonder: how small could be an understandable practical “Model T” design that covers this functionality? 1M lines of code? 200K LOC? 100K LOC? 20K LOC?”

- Alan Kay

The Huffington Post wrote a Chrome extension, and now whenever...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:51:44 -0400

The Huffington Post wrote a Chrome extension, and now whenever you visit their website in Chrome, it’s offered. Nice way to peddle extensions! It’s like the way they advertise their iPhone app when you surf there in Safari on an iPhone.

Google customizes results with no indication of the...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:41:00 -0400

Google customizes results with no indication of the customization (vanity search). This is Firefox and Chrome side-by-side. Picture drill-down will be required to see details.

jewyorican: Billy, Sammy, & Charlie nomming

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:38:54 -0400

jewyorican:

Billy, Sammy, & Charlie nomming

Sometimes our sugar gliders look like something out of a cheap...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:36:48 -0400

Sometimes our sugar gliders look like something out of a cheap scifi monster movie. They sound like it too.

Another Mari masterpiece at the office! This time the lucky...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:48:17 -0400

Another Mari masterpiece at the office! This time the lucky birthday boy is Adam Whippy, who just got back from the World Cup.

"Androids are for people who are too lazy to wait in line for an iPhone."

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:20:33 -0400

“Androids are for people who are too lazy to wait in line for an iPhone.”

- http://jewyorican.tumblr.com

I discovered the Okapi yesterday. What is this, some sort of...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:42:58 -0400

I discovered the Okapi yesterday. What is this, some sort of joke?

Gorillas at the Bronx Zoo yesterday. It was a blast! Can’t...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:37:11 -0400

Gorillas at the Bronx Zoo yesterday. It was a blast! Can’t believe I waited so long to visit!

Our cat Sammy is allegedly a legendary ledge lounger.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:29:40 -0400

Our cat Sammy is allegedly a legendary ledge lounger.

"One response to this [software tar-pit] crisis was structured programming, a reform movement whose..."

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:49:54 -0400

“One response to this [software tar-pit] crisis was structured programming, a reform movement whose manifesto was Edsger W. Dijkstra’s brief letter to the editor titled “Go to statement considered harmful.” Structured programs were to be built out of subunits that have a single entrance point and a single exit (eschewing the goto command,which allows jumps into or out of the middle of a routine). Three such constructs were recommended: sequencing (do A, then B, then C), alternation (either do A or do B) and iteration (repeat A until some condition is satisfied). Corrado Böhm and Giuseppe Jacopini proved that these three idioms are sufficient to express essentially all programs.”

- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/technology/programming_history.shtml

"The realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going..."

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:14:04 -0400

“The realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs.”

- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/technology/programming_history.shtml

Google Suggest getting ads? #SEO Maybe, or maybe just enhanced...

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:29:58 -0400

Google Suggest getting ads? #SEO Maybe, or maybe just enhanced lists. Either way, Google Suggest just got a whole lot more interesting.

Oh, Reeder, you just blew it. There’s no reason I should...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:12:39 -0400

Oh, Reeder, you just blew it. There’s no reason I should have to be online to mark something for Instapaper. I’m on the subway, and that sorta defeats the purpose, now doesn’t it? Big point for Byline. Now if I could just get them to add “swipe to mark read” in headline mode, and add different sorting, it’d be ideal.