Image by Steve Crane via Flickr Because this is a local topic the post is in slovene, apologies to both my international readers. Zadnje dni ŠOU že kar malo precej najeda z vso propagando okoli malega dela in kako je to oh in sploh konec sveta, pa da sploh ne omenimo ubogih študentekov kako, da [...]
Freelance teaching is great, or why C/Java/etc. are horrible teaching tools
Image via Wikipedia Seriously why aren’t there more teachers in the world? What a bunch of charlatans. But I’m getting ahead of myself in this story. Last week I was doing a lot of freelancing as a teacher and instructor in the dark arts of programming. There was this kid who desperately wanted to get [...]
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Do you memento mori?
Today I read a nice post about the 6 myths that stand in your way. And there was one that stood out the most Myth: There is time Reality: You have less time now than you have ever had. You have less time now than you had an hour ago. You are nearer to your [...]
The sad state of BlackBerry apps
Image via CrunchBase This morning just as I was battling with the question of going for a morning run or not I came across this facebook status <a status I am currently unable to find> But anyway, it was of something called @runkeeper and a dude reported he just ran 0.00 kilometers. So why would [...]
Student+entrepreneur != hard
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I gave a guest talk sort of thing at the Jobfair on my faculty. The point was to perform the function of a live demo for my startup incubator and help them get more startups that way. My personal point was to get some blokes to go “HEY! I wanna to [...]
Philosophers are crazy people!
They seriously are, just look at how well they can take a joke! Dude seriously, the answer to that is “HaHa oh you” not all of that. Oh well, kudos for proving that caring about paradoxes is just silly because they either don’t exist or they do exist and you’re a jackass. Also, did you [...]
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How Men Who Stare At Goats gave me a breakthrough
Last night I was faced with a daunting task of making a meta-heuristic process a non-trivial amount of data in no more than a tenth of the time it was taking now. Just to help you embrace the herculean task this was: My goal was to make the algorithm’s runtime lower than 1.5 seconds for [...]
Splitting and merging django models with perfect transparency
This is a howto that might come in handy to some people, but mostly I just want to document how I poked around some very angry django dragons and created something marvelous. There are also people on twitter who were wondering what the fuck I was doing. So let’s start by describing the problem. We [...]
Exam season eats time like women, internet and television combined
Image via Wikipedia Ah, finally, we can breathe again! The last couple of weeks … was it two, was it three? Can’t really tell, feels like I’ve left the office just yesterday while at the same time seeming like it’s been years since I last set foot in the office to do any real work. [...]
Apple pulls another Newton with the iPad
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot, and I mean a bloody metric shitload, of rumours, speculation and other fun things about the soon-to-be-announced Apple tablet. You know how those Apple fanboys get, the first time hype started building about this thing was several years ago, but lately it’s been getting soooo pervasive you just knew [...]
