This week Yahoo has made a deal with Tumblr that Yahoo would acquire Tumblr with $1.1 billion. The reason why Yahoo wants to acquire Tumblr is still not so clear. It may be because they don't want to miss the chance again after they missed the chance to acquire Facebook. But anyway, let's take a tour to the office environment of Tumblr.The big logo after entering the door.The office building in Tumblr has two floors. Most people are working on the first floor.Cute decorationsTechnical team are have meeting in the kitchen. It's more efficient when every one stands.Food in the kitchen. Employees...

World leaders are those people who have extraordinary speaking skills and are a group of very busy people in most people's impression. But among them, there are a few who know how to program as well. Today we are going to summarize some of them.Lee Hsien Loong -- Singapore Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loong, Singapore Prime Minister posted a C++ program about Sudoku which he wrote several years ago. He shared the source code on Google Drive as well. In 1971, Mr. Lee studied Mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was Senior Wrangler in 197...

The previous post described motherboards and the memory map in Intel computers to set the scene for the initial phases of boot. Booting is an involved, hacky, multi-stage affair – fun stuff. Here’s an outline of the process: An outline of the boot sequence Things start rolling when you press the power button on the computer (no! do tell!). Once the motherboard is powered up it initializes its own firmware – the chipset and other tidbits – and tries to get the CPU running. If things fail at this point (e.g., the CPU is busted or missing) then you will likely...

Microsoft is filing a new patent about transparent display screen, it may be used on augmented reality technologies of tablets, phones and laptops. Similar to the scenes in the movie Minority Report. Minority Report was showed in 2002, it described a world of 2054, at that time 3D technology is mature. But after 10 years of this movie, Microsoft not only invented the basis of this technology, but also make it more portable.Patent Bolt recently revealed a patent application of Microsoft about transparent display device, it described the portable version of this transparent 3D display device. Th...

Although there is rapid revolution for new technology, some technologies can survive with the passage of time. Here are 10 modern technologies which may continue to exist in 2030.1. QWERTY keyboardSpeech recognition, handwriting recognition and gesture control input will become the trend for the next two decades. Nonetheless QWERTY keyboard input is still one of the most accurate way - although not necessarily the most convenient.Although physical keyboard disappear on phones and tablet PCs, the real plastic key feeling will not be exceeded on laptops and desktops. It first appeared in 1878 an...

First off, welcome to the fraternity. There aren’t too many people who want to create stuff and solve problems. You are a hacker. You are one of those who wants to do something interesting.“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability."– WhyTheLuckyStiffTake the words below with a pinch of salt. All these come from me – a bag-and-tag programmer. I love to get things working, rather than sit at something and over-optimize it.Start creating something just for fun. That’s a great start! There’s no way you ...

You should not claim yourself as a mobile Internet service provider if your product doesn't have an App nowadays. The topic cannot get away from App when we talk on bus, restaurant. Recently it becomes a little bit quiet, but the app wind does not seem to stop, it seems every website may have an App. According to data released by Apple a couple of days ago, its application store app downloads already exceeded 50 billion. However some people are not happy with this.Some people created a blog on Tumblr called "I Don't Want Your Fucking App" specializes in collecting some websites which forc...

Today I came across some interesting building names while wandering around technology park of Singapore. Most of these names are biotech related. They are Chromos,  Centros, Matrix, Genome, Proteos, Nanos, Helios, Neuros, Immunos, Synapse and Amnios.ChromosCentrosMatrixGenomeProteosNanosHeliosNeurosImmunosSynapseAmniosI am wondering whether there are building which are named with programming language names. Do you see anyone of them anywhere?...