
With Jason Swett: when data structures, big-O notation and algorithms were completely useless...
Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
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How to Fix a Problem
"I'm very adept at being dissatisfied with things almost to the point of being unable to operate in the world," he says. "In cars, for reasons I won't go into, you turn the temperature up on the temperature controls by cranking a knob and you control the intensity of the fan by pushing an up and down button." The way that it maybe could be done tastefully is if I made it funny, but unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to make it sufficiently funny to make it worthwhile", he adds.
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