I actually used the NSA post-it diagram today to explain to a co-worker how we manage https and what's the difference between GFEs and backend jobs in prod.  I regret nothing.

Wifi always sucks.  We're just haggling about how much and in what way.

"Larry commented to me how excited he is by our plan to make WiFi experiences much better, esp. in Fiber cities [...]"

Oh phew, that must mean we found someone who understands how to make wifi work!  I look forward to meeting him or her.

Totally shocking news.  I am shocked.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/intel-selling-internet-tv-service/

Ok, not really.

WHAT LUNATIC PUTS THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT ON THE LEFT, asked apparently nobody at the IEEE ever.

"The bunny... getting through customs... all this random legal stuff..." 
– actual quote from marketing phone call near me

I only wish my job were that surreal.

I'm about 99% certain now that I need to get more sleep.

I just realized that the optimal format for transferring raw data intended for afterquery heatgrids is png.  It's a file format for lossless encoding of sparse matrices, essentially.  Also I can just load it directly into an HTML canvas and... never mind.

Well, that's more horrifying than I expected from the title.  Once again, not cynical enough.

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone

Sometimes people ask me what we do on our team. Until now I didn't have a clear answer.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

Just saw some amusing slides from a company about their recent acquisition of a similarly-sized company and how it's a good move strategically.  Some of the justifications, translated into my own words:

• We're bigger now! (bar chart)
  
• Acquired company does enterprise and we don't!
  
• Acquired company is in other markets that we're not! (pie charts)
  
• Acquired company makes products that are different from ours, so now we can be a greater percentage of the total solution!
  
• Acquired company has revenues and profits, which when added to ours, makes the total bigger! (line charts)

Summary: all of the above would also be true if a software company acquired a breakfast cereal company.

This year in Quotes from Avery's Performance Review:
- "goes on for pages and pages"
- "workaholic"
- "persistence to pursue it till death"
- "scary"

And that's just the strengths section!

(Joking aside, there's lots of actionable stuff in there.  Thanks, y'all. I think the new perf format is a success.)

QoTD:
"""
Is this the [code] drop which panics immediately?

I guess that probably isn't specific enough: is this the most recent drop which panics immediately?
"""

I had this idea to maybe run all APs on the same channel and deal with interference using some method other than switching channels (eg. backchannel TDM coordination + cts/rts).

The good news:  Someone else apparently is also doing this and selling it.

The bad news: the other product doing it sounds like snake oil :(

http://blog.merunetworks.com/blog/2013/07/can-single-channel-really-work/

$300 for 7 years, or $9/month?  Depending on your situation, the answer might not be obvious.

http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/21/housing-projects-connect-with-high-speed-internet/