Last Friday I woke up ungodly early, groggily half slept through my morning workout, stuffed the electronics into my backpack, hopped on the longboard and rushed off to the train station. Sweat trickling down my back despite sub-zero weather, I did not miss the train. The six of us commandeered a compartment and rode to Belgrade like [...]
A while ago I decided it was finally time to bite the bullet and learn frontend testing. Things were getting out of hand with a project I’m working on (melt.ee) and I could no longer keep a good development pace while ensuring a good level of quality. You know the drill, it’s just a three [...]
Between 12 hours a day behind a computer, 6 hours of boxing every week and some 800 press ups per week my wrists are really taking a beating. Sometimes literally. I’ve gotten so used to the constant pain I stopped noticing. Oh yeah, my hands feel a bit sore in the evenings and I have [...]
Yesterday I got nerd sniped into solving the FizzBuzz problem without using if sentences. Unfortunately, a more careful inspection of the problem specification reveals this solution was incorrect. Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of [...]
Don’t rely on your brain the day after a festival. Don’t have any prior engagements either. It won’t go well. I promise. Something as simple as picking up your car can go terribly wrong when you walk for 30 minutes across the town, get the Awesome Dude Who Loaned You His Garage to open it [...]
“Screw the power users” wrote Nick Bradbury about catering both to power users and normal people. The more he improved his product and made it provably better, the more did power users complain about every new release and lost “feature”. Loudly. Sales went up, but positive feedback went down. His market targeting was off. But not [...]
This post is summarized from Chapter 3 of Ruli Manurung‘s An evolutionary algorithm approach to poetry generation from 2003 – it is essentially 10 years old research from a fast moving field of science. However, these are core principles and techniques; a casual perusal of wikipedia indicates they are still valid. If you know of something [...]
After two phone interviews Google asked me to visit London and have a whole day of chatting about technology and solving intricate coding puzzles. Just to see how good I am on a scale of 1 to Google. They aldo sent me an email with advice. It can be summed up as “You should know everything. [...]
No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try. ~ Some Green Dude That’s solid advice right there. You shouldn’t try to do this. Just do it. Or don’t, if you decide it you don’t want to for whatever reason. Another movie had a similar philosophy: “You either karate or you do not karate. [...]
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