This Week in Twitter

Habt ihr schon gesehen, wie schön das Kerzenlicht ist? Aber wirklich gesehen? # Note how people communicate with self-created flawless infographics and typography. I wish I learned it at school. http://t.co/MZ24goGL # On December 18th another 230 tonnes of radioactive water leaked at Fukushima. Mass media not interested (?) # Eine sehr interessante Statistik: http://t.co/xRkvNrUE …

Adventures in embedded C land

Preface I don’t think of myself as a software developer. My motivation to learn and work in software development was based on the idea of building things. But if you think about it, software alone is not a “thing”, it is just a component of software product. Even worse, it is an invisible component nobody …

This Week in Twitter

unglaublich! http://t.co/yxvuIOZR Danke, GfK Retail : Na dann, mein Ziel ist es, aus 1 Prozent 48 zu machen :) Auf dem Metz Fernseher # Nikolaus hat mir keine Schokolade, sondern Entscheidung gebracht, wieder einen Abnehmen-Versuch zu starten. Mit 130 Kilo die höchste Zeit! # 45m3 water with 260GBq leaked from a Fukushima cleaning apparatus. 150 …

Christmas Feeling

Christmas is an accumulator of childish happiness. Children can be much more happy than adults. Adults have experienced death of dear ones, farewells or illnesses, or realization that some of their goals they wholeheartedly wanted to achieve cannot be achieved anymore in this life. This all remains constantly in the head and cannot make room enough for a …

Open Source: past perfect?

What motivates people to create open source software? On the one hand, efforts required for it are greater than those couple of days spent by students on solving their toy assignments, on the other hand it is almost impossible to sell, and it is very hard to do “consulting” kind of business around it. So why is it worth …