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My name is Mark Doliner. I’m a computer software engineer living and working in North Carolina, USA. I worked in the San Francisco Bay area for 13 years before moving back East in 2019. My email address is mark@kingant.net.
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
I Love This Video
“Oh no, no thank you, this sounds like fun, but I’ll just have a lemonade please.” “Ooh! This is good, because winter is coming. I could use these long johns ok.” “Joo know, this ‘hush puppy’ is like a quiet … Continue reading
The Startup Ambience
This whole “computer startup company” thing really is different than what I was used to on the east coast. I mean, I had heard about Google and Yahoo! and PayPal and eBay and Amazon and Netscape, but it’s hard to … Continue reading
Asynchronous MySQL client library
Our de facto method for asynchronous programming at Meebo is to use a single thread with non-blocking sockets and some sort of socket watching/readiness notification (poll, select, epoll, libevent, glib’s mainloop, etc). This is what Pidgin does, too. It is … Continue reading
readdir(), strtol(), errno and you!
Usually when you call a function you can determine if there was an error based solely on the return code. But the functions readdir() strtol() and strtoll() are different. For these functions, if you want to know if there was … Continue reading
Airline Rant
I flew to Raleigh over the weekend for a sweet wedding of some sweet people. My flights were booked on Continental Airlines, and I guess their main hub is in Houston, Texas. Unfortunately Huston was being inundated with Hurricane What’s-his-face, … Continue reading
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Getting my Groove On
Emily and I hosted a sleepover-with-alcohol party yesterday. I almost called it an adult sleepover, but I think ‘adult’ anything generally implies something… else. Anyway, it was fun! We got rid of a good amount of the liquor from our … Continue reading
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