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Happy birthday, IBM.
Pascal Cuoq on 16 June 2011

Today is IBM's 100th birthday, if the rumor is to be believed. Just the occasion for a link to this online article about the Polaroid SX-70 then. The article is the work of Harry McCracken. I am glad that 21st century internet allows authors such as him to be heard...

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Final thoughts on the ICPC 2011 industrial challenge
Pascal Cuoq on 11 June 2011

I have received the review of my submission to the ICPC 2011 industrial challenge. If you have read the challenge description, you may remember that participating involved writing various fictional e-mails. In my submission, I skimped a bit on that part. Some of the e-mails I replaced by an e-mail...

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Fixing robots, part 1
Pascal Cuoq on 6 June 2011

This blog post is a revised version of part of my submission to the ICPC 2011 Industry Challenge. Please go ahead and read the challenge description. I could only paraphrase it without adding anything to it and so I won't. The study was made with the April development version of...

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Skein tutorial, part 7: not dead, but resting
Pascal Cuoq on 2 June 2011

Do you remember the Skein tutorial? It went off to a good start (it started this blog) and then was never really completed. I blame laziness. Looking back at that first post, I notice that indeed, before Boron, we were shipping software without documentation (just think! Ahem). At the time,...

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