October 2011
2 posts
Expensive Road Bikes Aren't What They're Cracked...
On September 17, I bought the Scattante R330 road bike for $700. This was an expensive bike, considering I previously rode a multitude of shoddy Costco bikes, all of which retailed for appropriately cheap prices. Naturally, I had high expectations for this shiny new toy.
Problem #1 happened on day zero. Apparently, what you see is not what you get. The bike technician took the bike on the shelf,...
A Fun Way to Burn Up Your CPU
The Stockfish open source chess engine project just switched its GitHub repo from private to public. Now you can pretend to be an expert hacker by filling your Terminal window with chess moves. Here’s a shell script to download and compile the latest version of Stockfish from the repo (requires Xcode): http://cl.ly/0O1V3f3C1b1x0q221V3z
After that, it’s time to
./stockfish
go...
