Aus gegebenem Anlass frage ich mich, wie lange es dauern wird, bis CSU endgültig das öffentliche Image so wie bei NPD erreicht und ein Verbotsversuch gestartet werden könnte. Ich kenne mich in der Politik ganz schlecht aus. CSU habe ich zum ersten Mal kennengelernt, als Herr Steuber über seine christliche Leitkultur gesprochen hat. Ich habe zwar …
Author Archives: MaximFridental
My Decision Theory
On my way to work I usually take a bus. Once, I’ve arrived to the bus stop a little bit late and had to wait for the next bus. I looked at the timetable and found out that the next bus was going to come in 12 minutes. I take two bus stops, which takes …
Childhood remembered
One of the things done right in the Russian school system is the vacations schedule. The summer vacations are the largest and cover the whole summer; they start in the beginning of June, and end on August 31st. This is almost three months of the best weather in the year. For children it is so …
Four Weeks of Bugfixing
The hardest bug I’ve ever fixed in my life took me 4 weeks to find. The bug report itself was pretty simple, but I have to give more context first. I was one of the developers of a Smart TV software, and the bug related to the part of the software responsible for playing video …
Best romantic movie in 2013
Male: Oh snap… Oh shit!! Female: What!? What!? What?. Sashka, Sashka! … Female: Shit… Such an idiot! Male: I was waiting until he decides which way to turn… If you don’t immediately see why is this romantic, consider this: The female (supposedly Sashka’s wife) goes from a calm, sleepy smalltalk into an absolute panik, in just the second, when she …
Four Seasons of Enterprise
In the beginning, there is no enterprise, just a couple of founders fascinated by a single idea and working hard to realize it. The startup does not earn much money, and there are barely any employees, so that I suppose it might feel just like a (very hardcore) hobby. Or a side gig. There are …
On corporate politics
My father has been living in the USSR for 54 years, before moving to Germany. During all this time, he has only owned two cars. Owning a car in the soviet union was something only for people with big balls. The story started with the impossibility to buy a car. You could not just save …
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How M should an MVP be?
Minimum Viable Product is now mainstream. But what exactly does it mean? In my opinion, MVP is just an example of a more generic principle: Fail Fast. In other words, if you have to fail, it is better to fail in the very beginning, reducing the amount of burned investment. If my idea is good, …
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