Professor Tom's Tech Tumble

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New vs. Experienced Programmers

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In case of fire: 1. git commit 2. git push 3. leave building

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Programmer Competency Matrix

Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. Computer Science 2n (Level 0) n2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log…

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Intel Changed the Name of Its Dinkiest Processor and It Will Definitely Confuse You

Buying a laptop with Intel on the inside often boils down to two choices. Do you go with the potent Core i processor like the i5 or i7, or do you save some money (and battery life) and grab the super low powered Core M processor usually reserved for tiny tablets? Core i and Core M, despite both coming from Intel, are very different families of processors and provide very different services to a computer user. So it’s kind of bullshit that Intel, with the release of Kaby Lake, has quietly changed the name of two Core M processors (the m5 and m7) and is now calling them i5 and i7 processors.

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7 incredibly tiny details you never noticed in your iPhone

Apple packed a bunch of design details in your iPhone.

I knew some of these like the clock always telling the correct time (BONUS: The Calendar icon always shows the correct date) and that there were two screens for answering the phone though I didn't fully know what the trigger was to getting which screen. The switch on the flashlight is just trippy.

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Instaparser API

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Experts Say Your Standing Desk Is Basically Useless

Turns out the pricey investments haven't really demonstrated their worth.

THE SCIENCE IS IN!

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Tech done right.

(via ‘The Slackbot Bot’, A Robot That Physically Delivers Messages Via Text Commands in the Slack Application)

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How to gain access to a Windows machine if the drive isn't encrypted

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Why does OOP dominate the industry?

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Ballmer: Linux No Longer A Cancer - InformationWeek

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who infamously once declared Linux a cancer, has now had a change of heart and applauded the company's latest moves to embrace the open source platform.

GOOD NEWS! Ex Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer no longer thinks that Linux is a cancer.

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Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email and putting the now ubiquitous “@” sign in addresses, has died at the age of 74.

R.I.P.

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Oculus founder explains why Macs can’t do virtual reality

Mac users won't be able to run Oculus Rift when the long-awaited virtual reality headset starts...

The Mac Pro, Apple's single fastest computer, hasn't been updated since 2013.

That's not true; the Retina 5K iMac has a higher frequencey and therefore can complete single-threaded tasks faster. The only way the Mac Pro becomes "faster" is if you need a massively parallel system and the code you're excecuting gets more performance out of running on many CPU cores than it does running on fewer but faster cores.

To wit: the fastest Mac Pro currently Turbo Boosts to 3.9Ghz; the Retina 5K iMac's fastes chip starts at 4.0Ghz and will Turbo Boost to 4.4Ghz. The more cores you add to the Mac Pro, the slower the machine gets: a 12-core Xeon E5's base frequency is 2.7Ghz.

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