An acquaintance posted something socialist with a comment comparing economics to astrology the other day. The comparison intrigued me, not because I agreed nor because I found it ridiculously outrageous, but because it wonderfully illustrates the problem people on either side of the political spectrum (not to be confused with the autism spectrum, though the […]
There’s a lot of news about Russians hacking the American election. By publishing e-mails from the Democratic campaign, they have manipulated and in the end delivered the victory to Donald Trump. Except, I don’t think that’s the whole truth. I think that trying to blame “the Russians” is a big mistake and might even lead […]
If you order the days by color, you’ll notice that today is Friday, the day probably most famous for being the topic of Rebecca Black’s mega hit of the same name. […]
Anybody knows how to train for RedHat certifications? I would prefer a book, web-site or a set of trial exams; I don’t want to waste a week on some dumb hand-holding classroom training or €2500 on an “online learning experience.” I have practical experience with most of the actual content, but would like to make […]
It’s summer, and we all all know what that means: rain! And when it rains, things get all leaky. Memory leaky. The past couple days, we encountered a particularly interesting memory leak. We had some code which would leak memory and after around a month or so of running, it would start yielding problems. Due […]
The amazing cake diet: today, I had a piece of cake at work. When I got home, my scale showed 0.5 kg less than this morning. After a smidgen more than half an hour of spinning, it showed another 0.9 kg less. From this we conclude that eating a piece of pie is roughly as […]