If that title doesn't give you like 2 or 3 lines in bullshit bingo, nothing except a meeting with a Scrum coach can help you there. It's accurate, though. It's a thing that should be extremely simple, yet either my Google-Fu is too weak or nobody else on the entirety of the internet and by […]
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7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin
A couple of days (read 2 months) ago, I wrote why I believe Bitcoin is a bad investment. At the time, I promised to write about the technical shortcomings of Bitcoin. I did, and my browser crashed eating a large chunk of my post, and then I got busy with my studies again. I also […]
Why I am not Enthusiastic about the Blockchain or Bitcoin – Part 1: A Terrible Investment
A couple weeks ago I was discussing a technical architecture with a consultant working for a client of mine. After this, we ended just small-talking about this and that in tech, and ended up discussing “the blockchain” and “cryptocurrency.” Much to the surprise of the other consultant, my judgement of the blockchain is that it […]
Model-based Testing II: The GUIening
The modeling business is all about looks. Delicate lines, color composition, presentation all coming together. Ok, I’m done with a bad attempt at a bad analogy. Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. As is the existence of such rumors. While I’ve been quiet about my MBT Workbench, this is in part because I have […]
A Silver Bullet for Students?
Of course not. Students are people too, so regular bullets will do just fine. It’s interesting, though; I just heard about a study performed at Harvard to combat the dilemma that laptops in class help some students while it distracts others. One could of course forbid using laptops altogether to protect those they distract, but […]
What’s the Chance of a One-In-A-Hundred-Years-Event?
Last year a bunch of supposedly famous people kicked the bucket. People were talking about how the world was falling apart (probably in an attempt to block out that they have reached the age where their childhood/teenage idols are in the ready-for-replacement age). Ignoring the one attempt at quantifying this concluded that was largely bollocks, […]
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