Logiciel Libre

October 24, 2009

Googleplex at a Glance

Filed under: Default — Tags: , — adam @ 4:07 pm UTC

I’m having a great time at the Google Summer of Code 2009 mentor summit. The people are cool. The un-conference talks are fantastic: community building, mentoring, project hosting, etc. But this post isn’t about all that, this is about the Googleplex itself. Notables:

  • “microkitchens”: snacks, coffee, drinks, and a vending machine with prices based on nutritional value (corn nuts: 15 cents, candy bar 4 dollars)
  • volleyball, pool, massage chair, books, games
  • Toto washlet toilets
  • “refer a friend” promos every 20 feet
  • coding case studies in the toilet stalls

October 15, 2009

writing a file as UTF-16, little-endian

Filed under: Default — Tags: — adam @ 10:50 am UTC

With Vim, “:set bomb”, then “:set fenc=utf-16le”, then write the file to disk.

From the command line: “uconv -t –add-signature -t UTF-16LE in.txt -o out.txt”.

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