Monthly Archives: July 2009

5 million

Posted on 27 July 2009 by tychay

“Five million, bitches”
—my new reply every time someone mentions Ruby
A friend of mine is learning to program, and how to learn a programming language came up.
The issue is that there is a lot of people who are non-programmers and have … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP | Tagged BASIC, classes, Delphi, Erlang, immersion, Javascript, Karel, learning, Logo, Pascal, PHP, programming, programming language, Scheme | 17 Comments

Bear Cans

Posted on 27 July 2009 by tychay

I was amused to read about the bear Yellow Yellow’s ability to break into the BearVault 500.
When doing outdoor photography it is very important to know the bear-proof rules for your area. For instance, when I last hiked Tahoe, it … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | Tagged bear bag, bear canister, bears, food, outdoor photography, safety, Yosemite | Leave a comment

PHP Job: PHP ‘guru’ position in San Francisco

Posted on 24 July 2009 by tychay

Senior Software Engineer (PHP/MYSQL)
Someone who has help build scalable web apps for sites with millions of users at established Web 2.0 company.
Seeking a self-directed senior software engineer with a desire to build scalable and interesting web applications. We desire someone … Continue reading →

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Symmetrical compositions

Posted on 22 July 2009 by tychay

After this article, Kara convinced me to sign up for the Worldwide Photo Walk this year. I ended up going to the Marin one even though there were five in SF.
The big challenge of an outdoor nature photo walk—besides … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, photos | Tagged 2nd Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, China Camp State Park, composition, highlights, Marin, outdoor photography, panorama, photo walk, post-processing, stitch, Topaz Simplify | 1 Comment

Da Grip

Posted on 17 July 2009 by tychay

I’m left-eyed.

Left-eyed
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/500sec, iso 320, 35mm (47mm)
No that’s not a Sharingan, just creative editing.

It’s not completely rare to see some left-eyed photographers, but that’s mostly because creative types tend to be … Continue reading →

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2009-06-25 Out comes the Leica

Posted on 12 July 2009 by tychay

I haven’t shot the Leica in a long, long while. The main reason is both the M-mount lenses I have were busted and I have been too lazy to get them repaired. But actually, the larger reason is that I … Continue reading →

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Reviews with perspective

Posted on 8 July 2009 by tychay

Listening to Wired’s review of the Olympus E-620 (rated 6/10), an entry level dSLR I’m not the least bit interested in, when I got to this discussion on high ISO performance:
I say “in theory” because the E-620 doesn’t really do … Continue reading →

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Electronic Pen configurator

Posted on 6 July 2009 by tychay

Spending a half our messing with Four-Thirds matching simulator.

The top one is a 50mm f1.1 lens (100mm in 35mm equivalent). Imagine that! The middle one is a lens I own (35mm f1.2) except mine is in chrome and needs to … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, stuff | Tagged Cosina-Voigtlander, E-P1, lenses, micro four-thirds (µ4:3), nokton, Olympus E-P1, Olympus Pen, Voigtlander | 9 Comments

Someone needs two bits of sense, and it’s not Apple

Posted on 6 July 2009 by tychay

Since it was linked to from Apple’s Hot News section, I read with interest Galbraith’s article on the color accuracy of the new Macbook Pros, even though I plan on skipping this iteration of macbook.
When I came across this article … Continue reading →