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The rise and fall of the Microsoft empire 18 May 2013 | 04:58 pm
Even an empire can crumble and fall. The Roman Empire vanished. The British Empire is gone. It can occur for tech empires as well: does any remember the rise and fall of DEC? DEC (“Digital Equipment C...
Unsteadiness of progress in development 16 May 2013 | 05:03 am
There is a certain unsteadiness and ruggedness in the software world. Software development often feels like moving on a rugged landscape: sometimes it goes amazingly fast, but often you are just stuck...
Fundamental attribution error of programming 21 Dec 2012 | 02:39 am
Sam Stephenson is the creator of the Prototype JavaScript framework and rbenv, the competitor to RVM. He recently wrote an interesting article why programmers are not their product named “you are not ...
Ubuntu on Samsung Series 7 Chronos 15 Dec 2012 | 10:50 pm
After my 8-year old laptop refused to work this year, I looked for a while to buy a new one. The Lenovo ThinkPads looked good, they are quite popular among Linux fans. Sony and Apple make good machine...
Local vs. Remote Port Forwarding 1 Dec 2012 | 02:31 am
Have you ever wondered what port forwarding is or what the difference between local and remote port forwarding is? Port forwarding is a way to forward or “tunnel” TCP traffic through SSH from one mach...
Sisyphus Projects 1 Jul 2012 | 01:05 am
You know death march projects: in the software development and software engineering industries, a death march is a name for a project that is destined to fail. Some software projects are Sisyphus proj...
Some social networks are like black holes for data 12 Mar 2012 | 10:32 am
In earlier posts I tried to compare start-ups and quasars, and social networks with expanding universes. Now I would like to take a look a “black holes” and their relation to social networks. From th...
Programming together 18 Jan 2012 | 11:25 am
Programming together in a group is a bit like living together in the same house or sharing the same apartment. It can be fun if all work together. It can be frustrating and annoying, too. Others will ...
A minimum number of chips and code 1 Jan 2012 | 02:57 am
Good hardware engineers like the legendary Steve Wozniak make designs which have a minimum number of chips. They try to design a simple minimum-chip circuit, because in hardware design a minimal numbe...
Social networks are like expanding universes 31 Dec 2011 | 02:51 am
The universe is not static, it is expanding ever since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. It contains billions and billions of stars and galaxies, and it is getting bigger all the time. Social netw...
