I’ve read a blog post by Olga Gromyko, who is a popular award-winning Russian and Belorussian writer and, one can say, one of the founders of a new genre of Russian literature (the humorous fantasy). And this post has resonated so well with the summary of my previous Anti-Pirate post that I’ve decided to translate it here (shortened and totally …
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There are three types of Microsoft haters. The first one are those who in every topic would mention how inferior the PC platform and Microsoft products are. The second one are those who are completely ignorant, know nothing about Microsoft technologies, believe they don’t need to know anything about them, and have the attitude living in a world without Microsoft. The third …
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OMG, it turns out, I’ve almost invented iPad Mini!
I’m re-reading some mails I’ve sent to my friends in the last decade, and this is what I wrote on February 1st, 2004: To: <undisclosed recepients> Subject: This is the device I want to have (a personal media companion) The device must have flash memory in size of 650 Mb with the possibility to attach …
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Is there life beyond Scrum, part 2
Startup mode development is only possible for very small teams. It is not suitable for large projects. This is what I often hear as justification for introducing more formal development processes. So let’s play a large project scenario for Waterfall, Scrum and SMD and see how exactly SMD will loose this battle (I’m sure it …
socialba?
China playing ever increasing role as economic power and taking ever larger share of mass media topics, it is to be expected that the Chinese language and Chinese sites will appear in the international Internet consciousness. As far as I can tell, so far nobody has really made it, although I believe there are a lot of …
Have you ever chewed bitumen?
”Have you ever chewed bitumen?” That was the question my childhood friend asked me today. If you don’t know what bitumen is, go google it. I’ll wait right here. So, as you already know, bitumen is used for making asphalt or for roof sheeting. In my childhood, when I went to kindergarten, I’ve chewed it …
On TypeScript
Children bikes are equipped with detachable training wheels. Training wheels are very helpful on the initial stages, when you have to accustomize yourself with the speed you’re moving around, and how to get on or off the bike, and how to brake, and how to turn, and how to avoid obstacles, and how to check environment …
“This is the market that will explode”
Here are my impressions after watching the key note of the //build conference: The family of Windows 8 operating systems spans across the whole spectrum of devices: huge touch panels, all-in-one desktops, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, phones, and in some sense XBOX. When you write a Win8 app, it means it will run on any of aforementioned devices. I’m not …
Bewusst sein
Als ich 33 war, habe ich mich taufen lassen. Das ist ungewöhnlich. Insbesondere deswegen, weil viele aus meiner Familie noch als Kleinkinder getauft wurden. Ich aber nicht, und ich denke, ich hatte dadurch einige Nachteile im Leben. Denn ich habe mich um viele Sachen gekümmert, die es nicht wirklich Wert sind. Allerdings, gibt es auch einen …