Here’s the plan: It’s sunday, and its your birthday. You know your work buddies will throw you a surprise party during lunch one day in the upcoming workweek.
Now, lunch always starts at 12:00 sharp, and you are absolutely certain that one of the five upcoming workdays will feature the surprise party.
One of your workbuddies calls [...]
These days there are lots of waves about CEOs of big companies earning bizarrely large paychecks. This kind of thing has been going on for a very long time, but only now do people take notice.
Here’s a breakdown of why these large paychecks occur.
As many of my friends know, I’m not entirely happy with the dutch sanctions system for minor traffic infractions.
One of the problems I have with the system is the notification: It comes with sparse information, months after the infraction, by standard postal mail. Which can get lost and has no actual guarantee.
Turns out some [...]
Seth Godin reports on the spammers having found news aggregators. As you may have guessed, the news isn’t good for the aggregators.
Seth suggests counting a ‘known’, ‘respected’ voice more than a total stranger’s, where those terms (known/respected) are defined by their previous submission’s performance. The problem with that tactic, while it would work, is that [...]
This is a somewhat in depth response to a post made by Mike Bowler here.
I’ll conclude that no one programming language is ‘better’, which is generally common knowledge except for Mr. Bowler, apparently, but also that such evangelism isn’t all that bad for you.
Computer Security is an ill-understood subject. Generally, one is either utterly clueless about it (and movies aren’t helping, spewing forth such misguided wisdom as ‘any system, given enough time, can be cracked’), or quite the expert, and the initiated have a tendency to overdo it a bit, putting it mandatory password changes every month and [...]
The title of this blog is an oft-repeated mantra, originally said by Bill Gates. It is a large part of the design philosophy behind languages like python and ruby, and it is a significant player in those arguing against languages like Java or C#.
So, is it true?
Well, let’s try an example to show you!
Imagine a [...]
upfront note: This is pure conjecture.
This new macbook is bigger than the iBook. It’s also sufficiently powerful to act as your only computer with ease.
Which makes this macbook overpowered, really, for a lot of notebook target audience: Those who only use their notebook as a quick way to check email, take presentations and some files [...]
My MacBook arrived Mondayafternoon, nicely timed to coincide with an extremely busy week for me. Fortunately, Oliver was so kind as to babysit my door.
Let me tell you right away: I can’t believe this marvelous little gem is being sold for only 1100 EUR/USD. I prefer this thing to a 15″ MacBook Pro and [...]