14 May 2012
I’ve had an extraordinarily lucky life.
Since leaving Cambodia, I’ve been travelling around visiting friends and family, seeing shows…and interviewing for jobs. Probably the most important thing has been living with my immediate family (parents, brother, and dog), who moved to the east coast about when I left for Cambodia. But it’s time to get my life moving forward again.
Starting after Memorial Day, I will be joining Apple Inc. I will be working on the Clang compiler, an open-source, high-quality compiler frontend for C, Objective-C, and C++.
My interest in Clang began with its static analysis engine,…
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30 April 2012
Contrary to what you might think, the eponymous last samurai is not Tom Cruise, but the rebel leader Katsumoto—or perhaps the entire rebel army. “Samurai” is, after all, both the singular and plural form.
The Last Samurai is another one of those stories, where the protagonist representing imperial {America, Britain} is told to lead an attack on primitive but noble people, but instead ends up appreciating their way of life and eventually joining their struggle against the imperialists. I’ve heard this genre called “Movies White People Need to Stop Making”; similar examples include Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, and Avatar.
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24 March 2012
Two movies in one week! I finally got a chance to watch Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi movie Alien. In the context of books I’ve spoken out against “classics” (okay, a blog post is not “speaking out”). So how does Alien measure up? Does it stand on its own two feet?
Well, to be honest, Alien feels like the movie equivalent of a science fiction short story. I could point to certain similar traits—minimal background and explication, “business-as-usual” atmosphere to start, and the restriction of the movie to one problem followed through from start to finish—but there’s more than that. I…
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