A recent article in the New York Times described scientists observing a supernova in action [LINK]. I couldn’t help but be amazed at the science in this article. It also reminded me of some other facts about life, space and myself which are not always top of mind.
Essentially the article describes how scientists were able to observe a supernova from the very beginning of the process. It’s very rare to have a telescope pointed at the right spot in the sky in order to catch this. Normally astronomers …

My co-worker Marc’s got a good post on code optimization[LINK]; I couldn’t agree more in this case.
I think programmers should be given a mandatory course in games programming and/or embedded systems. One of my first jobs out of college was programming a home-grown smartcard reader for the CAROLAN project [LINK]. Can’t believe I found that link. I worked on this for 3 weeks in a tiny shop above a bakery in Rathmines. There was myself and one other guy, the electrical engineer who was busy soldering up boards on …