Austin Mills: Code, Methodologies, Games, etc.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008
In my day job I work on providing systems for remote monitoring and control of devices, and providing interfaces to and analysis of device data. When starting a project, there’s a great deal of flexibility as to what language you’re going to use, what front-end tools and architecture, etc. It gets you into the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2008
As if poorly-implemented electronic voting machines weren’t enough, Mother Jones has a good interview with William Poundstone about the problems inherent in the ‘vote-for-one-candidate’ style of voting, aka plurality voting, that has been the implementation of our democracy for as long as it’s existed. It’s not totally broken, of course — it works great when [...]