All blog comments postedin the past three years (since I switched to dasBlog/blogx) have been deleted. In an abortive attempt to combat comment spammers, I ran a script that determined that 100% of my comments were spam, and the upgrade to captcha failed anyway. I have backups of everything, but I don’t have time to […]
So much of what we know is built on the shoulders of previous generations, it’s almost a matter of faith that our collective knowledge is always better today than it was yesterday. But it is also a fact that society goes through cycles, manias, and societal structures can bias our knowledge in one way or […]
Don Box is considering what programming language to teach to best round-out his children. When teaching programming as a way to balance a child, rather than to accomplish specific programming tasks, it’s interesting to think about the thought patterns that the language encourages or enforces.
Languages like Basic, C, and Assembler always bothered me, because they […]
The average German works about 2.5 hours per calendar day. The link has more analysis about lazy Germans in general, but I am more interested in the related issue: do you know how much productive work you do each day? Time, like money, is a resource which you spend largely at your discretion. To maximize […]
Recently one of the teams in my division used a mock competition based on ‘The Apprentice’ as a team building exercise. Luckily nobody got fired, and it turned out to be a good team builder. But I somehow doubt that thereality TV show as actually practiced demonstrates a good way to get people in a […]