Yesterday I got into a bit of an argument over what trolling is and isn’t with @unmarketing because he reposted a year old blogpost that describes what he believes trolling to be. He basically describes a troll as such: Usually this sorry excuse for a human being would type something like “Your mom [...]
A while ago I wrote about my school project that involves generating pretty trees and concluded the post with the idea that I now have to implement some way for the branch lengths to be a bit random to add more variability. There is an easy and an awesome way to doing this. The [...]
Lately I’ve been spending my evenings and nights working on a super secret and above awesome project that I will talk about … soon, when it’s a bit more ready. tl; dr -> github link to source That project deals mostly with Twitter and harnessing url’s from the stream. As anyone who’s sniffed at Twitter [...]
Beginning of May I came across a pretty interesting website, 75owords.com. The general idea of the website is that you write 750 words every day. About anything. Unedited. Unhindered. Completely free. Just write about whatever comes to mind in whichever way it decides to come. When you’re done you simply tuck it away somewhere never [...]
Have you ever tried to generate a natural-ish looking tree? I did it for a coursework assignment and turns out it’s both incredibly simple while being full of strange little twists. Generally the assignment was about manipulating 3D objects in OpenGL through user action. Otherwise known as: make a game, if it isn’t a [...]
Yesterday I wrote a blog boldly proclaiming one shouldn’t be a quiet professional. I felt it wasn’t very inspired and lacked a certain amount of substance, but the internet apparently had a different idea of its value. All it took to get it on the frontpage of HackerNews was posting the link on twitter … [...]
HackerNews was aflutter today with talk about how you should be a quiet professional, do whatever it takes and don’t even complain, take any and all ill that comes your way like a stoic shaolin monk, show no fear, show no emotion, robotically and efficiently perform any task on your path, go face-first through a [...]
