I’m on the team that runs the MATLAB Programming Contest. The contest has evolved into a week-long series of mini-contests, each with its own deadline. We post all deadlines relative to our own clocks in Natick, MA, but we have contestants playing in real-time from all over the world. I just stumbled […]
At work, I’m the maintainer of some company internal standards. Some of them link to a section of of our public online documentation. The system that produces this doc doesn’t produce cool URLs. They are long, ugly, and change every time we do a major software release.
Q: How can I get out […]
Since last September, I’ve been living in my 2005 25′ International CCD. I couldn’t find much information about how they perform in the cold, but its been relatively painless despite the occasional blizzard. I did have a snag about a month ago. Here is what I posted to The Airstream Knowledge Sharing […]
We’ve been having a good discussion at work on how to encourage and reward friendly behavior on our very active user community site. One idea is to implement some kind of user rating system, like awarding points for contributions or even a Slashdot-style karma system.
I’m not crazy about these ideas. My thinking has […]