Posts by Dann Berg | Dann Berg - Part 8
Writing Fizz Buzz in Xcode
Fizz Buzz is a common programming challenge that I’ve seen referenced numerous times since first learning about it through Codecademy. The prompt is this: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For […]
Living in Computers and Other Crotch Shots
Ben Makuch writing for Vice.com: According to Moore’s Law, which states that computing power doubles roughly every two years, all of this will be theoretically possible in the future. Sooner or later, we’ll get to a place where simulating a few billion people—and making them believe they are sentient beings with the ability to control […]
Google Glasses as Couture Fashion
Diane Von Furstenberg put her models in the Google Glasses Explorer Edition for her Spring 2013 show at Fashion Week. Here’s Lauren Indvik reporting for Mashable: The bands of each pair [of Google Glasses] were modified to complement the collection’s palette of corals, blues, whites and grays. It was the first time Glass had ever […]
Loop Exercises in Programming in Objective-C
In addition to my traditional posts, I want to use this website as a personal journal recording my experiences learning to code. This is the first of what will be many posts relating to my learning. The main purpose of these posts are for my own benefit, processing my own thoughts by writing them down […]
App.net is Not the Answer, and Why I Gave Them Money
I do not think App.net is the answer. I do believe Dalton’s views on the detrimental nature of ad-supported services is spot-on. There are, however, fatal flaws with customer supported services, too. People do not want to pay for digital services or goods. It’s been like this since the invent of the Internet. Thanks to […]
Cyborgs, Biohacking, and Magnetic Implants
Ben Popper, writing for The Verge: People passing by gave us odd stares as Berg and I stood next to each other in the street, waving our hands around inside an invisible field, like mystics groping blindly for a ghost. Fantastic article about the current state of biohacking. And I helped.