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  • A Philosophical Argument for P != NP

    David Levin sent me a link to a great blog post that talked about the question of whether P == NP. From the post: More often than I can remember, I've been asked some form of the following question: "If you computer scientists can't prove P=NP or P!=NP...
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  • Facebook Redesign & New Job

    Yesterday, the Facebook launched a redesign of their site that included two new features -- News Feeds and Mini Feeds. In short, I thought the features were absolutely brilliant. Ever since I graduated college (2002), I've basically had one overarching...
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  • Ed Helms Takes On Microsoft

    Ed Helms (from the Daily Show) did a video for Microsoft College Recruiting. It's fan-freaking-tastic. The "free soda" person is the awesome Julie Farago. http://www.microsoft.com/College/default.mspx Fantastic.
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  • John Battelle Interviews Gary Flake

    John Battelle has a good interview with Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow over in MSN: http://battellemedia.com/archives/002471.php . It reminded me of a relatively recent conversation I had with some other folks that joined the company within the past 5...
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  • Area Codes

    At some point I heard an interesting piece of trivia about the initial assignment of area codes. With rotary phones, the time it takes to dial a digit is actually a function of the digit itself (dialing a 2 takes twice as much time as dialing a 1, dialing...
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  • Greetings

    Greetings from Building 42! (Yes, the Windows Communication Foundation (as well as the .NET Framework and the CLR) are built in Building 42.) After years of resisting, I've finally decided to sit down and do the blog-about-WCF thing. My name is Mike,...
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