It seems many people are measuring their typing speed using the TYPEQUICK online typing test. Not to be left out, I gave it a run:
YOUR RESULTS ARE:
Number of words typed: 282
Test duration: 3 min
Speed: 94.1 words/min. (470 keystrokes/min.)
Error penalty: 14
Accuracy: 95.0%
Not bad. I’d probably have done better if I didn’t habitually use the backspace key [...]
I’ve been looking at the following window for about ten minutes, during which time it has gone unchanged.
It didn’t go away until I shut down Firefox. Go figure.
And just for the record, I don’t blame ReSharper for this one — I blame the Windows installer.
var addthis_pub = ‘bdemarzo’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = [...]
For the past few days, I’ve been working on importing raw play-by-play data for Japanese baseball. Once the import scripts and queries were written, I needed a way to audit the results. To do that, I needed a source for up-to-date statistics on Japanese baseball players.
Yahoo! provides a rather robust web site for the Nippon [...]
Andrew Tetlaw, blogger at Dexagogo and author of many great JavaScript libraries, recently had this to say:
Telephone interviews are hard.
They most certainly are, from both ends of the receiver.
Back from 1997 through 2003, I gave well over a hundred technical interviews for a recruiting company. They (the recruiters) would call me up, give me the [...]
PC World has just published an article, “The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time” — a fun walk down memory lane. How many of the 50 products listed have you used? I’ve used the following…
Netscape Navigator (my preferred browser until IE 6.0)
Napster (sparingly)
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (I am a dinosaur)
Hayes Smartmodem (my first modem [...]
