I backed a dumb Kickstarter project which in retrospect is an obvious scam (tech project with too short deadline, based on environmental/free energy, creators from greater Russia). It was supposed to deliver a dumb iPhone case around 1.5 years ago, and has been stringing people along with dumb excuses for delays and several “we’ll ship […]
How I Do E-mail
Outlook is in many ways like heaven: that’s where all good things go to die. I have tried many tools for organizing my mails in the past, but they always fail if they are too complicated. Let me guide you thru my no-method super-simple yet very effective approach to handle mails. […]
Concurrent Constraint Programming
Here’s a thing I didn’t expect to happen anymore: me publishing presentations on my homepage. It’s basically a shortened version of my post about user scenarios given at a kennissessie at work. It contains all the good stuff: Britney, CPN Tools, and tanks. As a bonus: also Java, Beta, Prolog, C and SML. […]
User Scenarios Considered Harmful
Programming can be complex. Modern systems can include many inputs from users. Inputs that each need to be checked, processed, and results returned back to users. A simple interface to the user may support many usage scenarios and many error scenarios. Here I’ll make a case for not bothering with trying to figure out these […]
Are People Econs or Altruistic?
In high-school every assignment puts up two opposites and ask you to categorize the real world into either of the two boxes. The correct answer is always the secret option 3: a bit in-between the two (preferably leaning towards the orientation of your teacher). Always. To immediately ruin the mood of this entire post and […]
If Cable Bundles are so Bad, why do People Keep Buying Them?
Cable bundles are apparently worse than literally Hitler, or at least the latest Kim Kardashian picture (which according to the internet is almost as bad). It is apparently the best thing since Britney and sliced bread that cable companies are about to be forced to sell channels a la carte. I’m all for a la […]
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