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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.

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The Excel 65,535=100,000 Bug

I've been getting a lot of requests from people to talk about the recent Excel bug. For those of you who haven't heard about this, in Excel 2007, floating point calculations that should result in a number very, very...

Granville Sewell: Genius or Liar?

As of 2/24/2008, Sewell has just responded to this, pretending that he just noticed it. To make discussions easier to follow, I have responded with a new post here, and I would appreciate it if comments could be posted there,...

Bad Software Design: Getting the Level Wrong

I came across a link to an excellent article that provides an example of one of my professional bugaboos: the truly awful way that we often design software in terms of how the implementer thinks of it, instead of...

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