Peter Whittaker

Professionally, I work pretty close to a bleeding edge (not the bleeding edge, but it’s still hairy here): Most of my job involves cross-domain work of one kind or another, and we prize reliability and performance in equal measure - one dropped packet in…

tl;dr: If you think ofgit branchas a verb meaningdiverge from this path, split my treeand think of the branch name as a label that tracks the most recent commit on this new path, a lot of stuff about git becomes clearer.

A recent paper on Closed Time-like Curves has editors the world over asserting that paradox-free time-travel is now possible!

Q for my Pythonista friends….

Once, and I don’t recall why, I said, probably to someone else, “I am nothing if not patient”.

tl;dr?

Someone posted in an FB group indicating they were going to buy a 2012-or-later Wrangler and asking whether they should get the Rubicon or the Sport.

Five years is a long time.

New software is net new but most people work on maintaining or incrementally improving their status quo.

A thought-provoking blog post by Scott Aaronson provokes more thought than I bargained for....

When should you refuse a search?

I got interviewed about our upcoming movie, Skipper Smith!

tl;dr:Trying to set up "send as" as a new email address in an existing gmail or GAE account?

tl;dr: The Canadian Government's online security screening application supports pretty much all browsers on all platforms for 99% of the process - but that last one percent is Windows only, IE only, and Adobe only.

Update summary, 2015-02-14: Working as described, with one additional milestone, Unsure.

(Another Facebook-inspired post, this one because of a comment “you should always get paid, never act for free”.)

(From a comment on yet another Facebook conversation….)

This afternoon a Facebook friend wrote to me in a comment, I’m sure you’ve been fascinated by this entire ordeal [The Sony compromise, accusations against North Korea, etc.] too!

tl;dr: What do you want me to write about first/next?