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Why you should not use Microsoft Silverlight for your next web application
The above warning message sums up everything I dislike about proprietary web technologies. Silverlight is a fairly new Microsoft technology from 2007 and Moonlight is its Open Source and not...
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After a year of doing freelance programming/consulting, I have a better understanding of why some people choose academia or research as a career path: Intellectual stimulation. I have been working...
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Complexity
A fractal simulation from http://davidlebech.dk/fractals/I learned about complexity studying computer science. Complexity was often measured in space and time, denoted by Ω, Θ and Ο. We learned about...
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Spotify royalties
Spotify by Blixt A.Spotify is a cool service but I do not agree with how they pay out royalties. In this post, I will propose a different way. The current royalty calculation is explained by Spotify...
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Historical design decisions and consequences
Douglas Crockford discovered JSON and he also wrote a reference implementation for JSON in Java. One of the great stories I heard him share was on Hanselminutes episode 396: He was contacted by some...
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Privacy Leak “By Design”
I had an interesting chat with Intercom support about what I perceived to be a security and privacy hole in their support messenger app, but it turned out that what I thought should be a great concern...
View ArticleChat is the new TODO
It used to be that the TODO app was a common way of demonstrating a specific language, framework or perhaps just as hobby project. Well, it occurred to me that now it seems that the new TODO app is a...
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People Debt
noun, Definition: Unwillingness or resistance to change in the context of organizations, application design and development, when the change is objectively or arguably positive for the organization....
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Corporate Bullying
Bullied ! by Craig Sunter (CC-BY-ND) A few days ago, we received some reports from users that all went something like this: “Norton is blocking access to your site. It says the site has a security...
View ArticleDear LinkedIn Recruiter
Rules for contacting people that you want to hire, from my perspective: Tell me what company you are recruiting for. I don’t care that you think the company is exciting. Include my name at the top or...
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