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Seven things you may want to ignore^W^W^W^Wmay not know about me

  • February 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Other

I tried to pretend I didn't notice but when tag count reached four it became difficult. So here's my “seven facts”. But first, the Rules:

  • Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
  • Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
  • Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  • Let them know they've been tagged.

That said... [ READ MORE ]

FOSDEM countdown

  • February 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Other

Only three days left before FOSDEM!

If you, dear Reader, who have stoically endured my writing so far, are coming to the event, please leave a comment or send a mail, I'd certainly like to meet you for some important algorithm implementation.[ READ MORE ]

Tetramine Day

  • September 26th, 2007
  • Posted in Other

I am amiss in not mentioning sooner a great initiative by Andrea: the Tetramine Day. What is it? You build a human-sized Tetris block, you wear it, and then meet hundreds of other “human tetramines” for a giant Tetris game[ READ MORE ]

Why talking about “alternative” is shooting yourself (and others) in the foot

  • July 20th, 2007
  • Posted in Other

I’ve seen it happen time and again. Companies and individuals go out of their way to write great open source software, then, when the moment comes to let the world know about it, they (and/or their early adopters and proponents) present it as “an alternative to [proprietary solution] Foo”. That�s bad when Foo is an established player:

Complexity

  • March 17th, 2007
  • Posted in Other

I have made attempts at saying something about the subject myself, but really, it doesn’t get much clearer than how Bill de h�ra puts it:

Reasoning about code that depends on something other than its inputs is arguably the operational meaning of ‘complexity’ in software. [ READ MORE ]