Rob Janssen

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A story about an angry carrot and a floating point fairy

Once upon a time, there was a kind and happy farmer, named Bob. Every year he planted a row of ten thousand carrots, and that would yield a few truckloads of the crunchy vegetables.

The most-viewed YouTube videos

Earlier this week, Google announced that Psy’s insanely viral YouTube music video, Gangnam Style, officially broke the 2,147,483,647 view barrier. What’s significant about that number, you ask? That’s the largest number that can be encoded by a 32-bit integer number.

Dating a Programmer ?

Have you ever dated a programmer ? Creatures indifferent, still different from whole of the world. Check out the Pros and Cons of dating a programmer in the following infographic.

Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984

Imagine you were a professional programmer in 1984, then you went to sleep and woke up 30 years later. How would your development habits be changed by the ubiquitous, consumer-level supercomputers of 2014?

The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD?

There has been a LOT of confusion around Windows, SSDs (hard drives), and whether or not they are getting automatically defragmented by automatic maintenance tasks in Windows. There's a general rule of thumb or statement that "defragging an SSD is always a bad idea.

From 1,000,000 to Graham's Number

Welcome to numbers post #2. Last week, we started at 1 and slowly and steadily worked our way up to 1,000,000. We used dots. It was cute.

Antialiasing: To Splat Or Not

Note: this post is adapted from an answer I wrote for the Computer Graphics StackExchange beta, which was shut down a few months ago. A dump of all the CGSE site data can be found on Area 51.

Never Run Your Mongodb as Root User

We have recently had a "to many open files" problem in one of our Mongodb servers. Mongodb kept saying "Out of file descriptors. Waiting one second before trying to accept more connections." and accepted no more connections.

Classic Game Postmortem : MANIAC MANSION

GDC 2011 Ron Gilbert Double Fine Productions free content Game Design Design

Non-Latin characters open opportunities for scams. But where is a list of characters to avoid?

Non-Latin characters open opportunities for scams. But where is a list of characters to avoid? (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

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