David Vasileff

"California taxpayers don’t get much bang for their bucks." - David Vasileff

"It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year's city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents." - David Vasileff

"Weatherbill's Math Team knows what SVD and SVM stand for. When you say decomposition they think matrices not dirt, and, given a chance to play 'Let's Make a Deal', would always switch their choice of doors." - David Vasileff

"gatekeeper syndrome: lack of interest in anything, no matter how important to your work, that doesn’t involve you being a gatekeeper." - David Vasileff

"Two new chapters: van Emde Boas Trees and Multithreaded Algorithms. Material on matrix basics becomes a new appendix chapter. New chapter on divide-and-conquer includes material on solving recurrences and applications of divide-and-conquer (including Strassen's algorithm). " - David Vasileff

"Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive." - David Vasileff

"There is no way this will work as advertised.  If the administration actually follows through, most of these executives will quit and get higher paying jobs elsewhere." - David Vasileff

"Obviously when two pilots fall asleep in the cockpit and they miss their stop, that triggers a lot of interest at NTSB" - David Vasileff

"A new report says 15 percent of servers aren't doing anything useful and are wasting energy" - David Vasileff

""If you have heart disease, you really need to stay away from secondhand smoke. It's an immediate threat to your life," declared Dr. Neal Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco, who co-wrote Thursday's report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine." - David Vasileff

congrats, Splunk! - David Vasileff

Those poor commuters, they're going to be late :((( - Carter Shanklin

"“Latin Music USA,” a four-part series ... PBS stations will begin broadcasting on Monday" - David Vasileff

Thomas Friedman on accepting the peace prize on behalf of the US military - David Vasileff

"The problem of loud commercials is not new.  It has bothered consumers and endangered their hearing for decades.  Under the CALM Act, consumers will control the sound and no one else will be able to take that control from them." - David Vasileff