Solving the wrong problem
Tragedy Hurricane : everybody rushes to solve the logistical and human problems related to the hurricane hitting populated areas.My view : fuck that, let's kill Hurricanes instead.We have many...
View ArticleThe First Technical Founder Mistake
Note:I personally am a technical founder with decent knowledge from motherboard to front-end design and that gives me the assurance that I don't know anything and should either learn a lot or take...
View ArticleThe Age of Education
We've finally reached it.Asia is on top of the world, Europe and US are slowly but surely sinking to the bottom of the ocean.And that's because we lost our last advantage, education.Our educational...
View ArticleAnatomy of the Best Programming Language
"A programming language must always enable full control of the underlying machine code in order to maintain full functionality.""A programming language must be paradigm agnostic and enable any paradigm...
View ArticleHacker News, Censored
For some reason, HN likes to say " You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.".For some reason it only seems to happen after an account has posted a comment not everybody...
View ArticlePassive Cooling Datacenter
In the last decade, datacenters have increased in power density so much that cooling even became a business concern. So far the conclusions are that watercooling is not really...
View ArticleHow to remove LinkedIn Today
1. get Adblock2. right-click on adblock, options3. Manually edit your filters, addwww.linkedin.com##LI[id="today-news-wrapper"]Click save, refresh, and enjoy a linkedin without the spam. Have a nice...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Century: Overpopulation
Overpopulation: is a generally undesirable condition where an organism's numbers exceed the current carrying capacity of its habitat (wikipedia, as good a definition as any other really).As long as...
View ArticleCodecademy review
Now that I have also reviewed CodeAvengers, let's just not waste your time: If you're looking at HTML / CSS / JavaScript training, go there right away, and maybe come back to Codecademy afterwards.In...
View ArticleCode Avengers Review
HTML tracklevel oneThis is just horribly painfully slow, i.e. exactly what a real beginner will find welcoming and useful.More than that, there's a focus on realistic training, making you check for...
View ArticleCode indentation
4-column tabConsistency > your feelings about code indentation.Spaces will never be consistent and require a lot of text-processing on commits and reads, etc. with no added benefit.Tabs are...
View ArticleInvisible MMO cell boundaries
Imagine you're flying a space-capable plane, fighting enemies on the ground. (that's obviously one cell, managed by one server).Then another aircraft starts chasing you and you decide to turn this into...
View ArticleREST (for the web), explained and reviewed
REST is about using HTTP features when they exist and serve your purpose.URIDon't: /api/edit/post/3/api/read/post/3/api/users/frank/post/3Do:/api/post/3HTTP...
View ArticleGoogle HTML /CSS Style Guide Review
HTML? Omit the protocol from embedded resources. ? Indent by 2 spaces at a time.? Use only lowercase.? Remove trailing white spaces.? Use UTF-8 (no BOM).? Explain code as needed, where possible.? Mark...
View ArticleThe meaning of life (42)
The question was: what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything.The meaning of life for humans is procreation, we exist because our parents procreated.To procreate is to multiply, the symbol...
View ArticleWarranty in Europe (and the world): Don't listen to the seller
Today I went to Aldi to get two broken items refunded (both broke in a few months and both of course benefit from the legal two-year warranty).I got told that:After one month, Aldi doesn't take care of...
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The Retina Bias
It seems most designers have successfully migrated to retina MBP.Unfortunately it seems some of them have not yet realized that most people don't want to use that computer to surf the web, be it...
View ArticleReinventing the Wheel
Most of my very short career was spent reinventing the wheel (alright, I'm cheating, I've been doing that for longer).And that kicks ass, because today I'm among the best wheel inventors and builders,...
View ArticlejQuery live is dead
the new liveSo here's how I reintroduced $.live to my jQuery.Unfortunately, .on(action,selector,func) does not seem to understand anything but the most basic selectors, and that makes it much much...
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