 Stories About: cars AND Dispatches AND fuel efficiency AND hybrids AND tech
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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03 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 03 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. The results of the bug bash are in. Our lead developer has gone through and "triaged" the bugs we found yesterday. After culling out the duplicates and the ones that, on further reflection, aren't bugs at all, he's sorted them by their importance. ... |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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02 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 02 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. Stayed late at work yesterday: My team was having a bug bash. We spent the evening looking for bugs in a twisted parody of a brainstorming session: Who can think up the most creative way to break the product? This one was pretty good. We found 65 bugs in a ... |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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01 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 01 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. How much power does your computer use? It's probably around 100 watts for a desktop machine, but what does that 100 watts mean? I work in an office with two honking current-guzzlers, and I have a pretty visceral sense of their power usage: I can feel it i ... |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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31 Oct 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 31 Oct 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. Software development is a resource-obsessed business, even though these "resources" are close to pure abstractions. Everything is measured in terms of its costs: how many CPU cycles this algorithm will take to run, how much disk space the program ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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30 Oct 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 30 Oct 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. I've worked at Microsoft for a year and half total, and in that time I've received two spider Koosh balls (Kooshes with only 20 or so hairs, giving them the lean look of predators), three twisty link toys, an indoor Frisbee, a magnetic poetry kit, a high-bou ... |
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