doug — off the record

Day: September 5, 2013

  • Can I Have a Second of Your Time

    If I’d only had a dollar for every time I heard that.  Or, maybe an app that I could set to say “OK, time’s up”. This was a computer science problem that I gave my students.  It was one that easily scaffolded to a number of things like accessing the internal clock of the computer…

  • OTR Links 09/05/2013

    When People Describe Themselves as Experts, It’s a Good Sign They Aren’t | TIME.com ision to market its own phones may tick off third-party manufacturers of Windows Phones. It’s a reasonable point — although I think a real expert might note that Nokia has nearly 90 percent market share in Windows Phones already. Even if…