On 03/01/15 15:26, Esther Schindler wrote: > I'm the newest kid on the block. I'm told that I should offer some > kind of introduction. > > Esther Schindler has been writing about computers and technology > since 1992, and these days is the editor of Druva.com's blog. She has > optimized compilers, written end-user applications, designed QA > processes, and owned a computer retail and consulting business. She > lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a husband, two cats, and a > well-known tropism for anything chocolate.
Greetings, Esther! What kinds of compilers have you optimised, out of interest? I have studied traditional compiler optimisation, but by day-job I tend to optimise a compiler from SQL queries into a stack-based intermediate representation that's run in a highly parallel fashion across clusters of servers, which is an almost totally different world, but good fun nonetheless! > Anything else you'd like to know? What's your magnetic permeability? I mean, obviously, humans are probably about as magnetically permeable as salt water, but the less significant digits probably vary a lot based on all sorts of interesting factors. Does anybody measure this property of humans? Nobody ever asks people that. If I ever again build a Web site with "password recovery security questions", that'll be the one I'll ask, as not other Web site will have it for hackers to steal and come to my site to steal people's accounts. Yeah! > > --Esther Schindler twitter.com/estherschindler > I'm twitter.com/alaric, but I've been trying to shift all my technical stuff to tiwttier.com/Kitten_Tech so that nerdy followers aren't bored by my posting pictures of children, so I've followed you from there! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
