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Yes, I have about $100 in Bitcoin and today was a bad day. It droppped from around $630 to around $580. Am I a speculator? I guess, but my excuse is that I’m very interested in the underlying technology and there’s nothing like having some to getting a feel for the space. Here’s a great article abou...
Read more →Other than the headline, which is amusing, I am not sure about the methodology or significance of this study in US News (do they still exist?). And it seems that many professions, e.g. College Professor, don’t even get mentioned...
Read more →Jonathan Harris is the creator of several really interesting web sites that in very creative ways combine art with computing. From his home page one might conclude that he’s a bit > “This is the website of Jonathan Harris. I make projects that explore the relationship ...
Read more →It’s obvious if you think about it, but this article drives some points home. If you use some kind of web service to read, listen, watch, charge, use, borrow or share stuff, that company not only knows what you’ve (read, listened to, etc.) They also know much more specifically how you did so: Did yo...
Read more →How to Get a Job at Google – NYTimes.com: > Don’t get him wrong, Bock begins, “Good grades certainly don’t hurt.” Many jobs at Google require math, computing and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.
I just saw Blue Jasmine, the latest Woody Allen movie. It is excellent and I recommend it. I also happened to read [Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times](http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollecti...
Read more →This article: The Only Interview Question That Matters” makes a pretty good case for this being the most important single interview question: > What single project or task would you consider your most significant accomplishment in your career to date?
After a glorious run of almost 10 years, regretfully, I’ve decided to decomission BlogBridge. My longtime freinds and blog...
I admit I am always a little bit offended when I hear that a friend of mine (François?) chooses Aruba as a vacation destination. And it happens pretty regularly. Oh I always say that the two islands are very similar, but the truth is that I’ve spent very little time in Aruba, so… Anyway, for those o...
Read more →Forget Dropbox, I just heard that Box.com gives you 50gig for free upon signup. I just signed up and it seems like I got it. Pretty cool: Box | Secure content-sharing that users and IT love and adopt: > Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can ...
Read more →This is just a great read. A Speck in the Sea – NYTimes.com: > Looking back, John Aldridge knew it was a stupid move. When you’re alone on the deck of a lobster boat in the middle of the night, 40 miles off the tip of Long Island, you don’t take chances.
Flying back home yesterday I read this article about Wikipedia in the New York Times: Wikipedia, What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page? – NYTimes.com: > The three tenets of Wikipedia articles are “No Original Resea...
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So, if you are writing one of those emails that you have to get right, and you plan to check and proof and think about, then don’t start by typing the To:. As long as you don’t type the To: you can’t accidentally send it out before you finish writing it. Once you write the To:, and accidental or careless send will possibly cause collateral damage if you’re not done word smithing your message.
Unfortunately students can be quite focused on their grades, and as a result I end up paying more attention to grading than I would like. By the way let me point out that ‘grading’ is more than assigning a grade to a bit of homework. Without going into detail, you have to decide and communicate: - ...
Read more →This article is a bit harsh/one-sided, but I still thought it was interesting to see an attempt at comparing programming as practiced in two very different contexts. [What’s the difference between college-level and corporate programming? | Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/information-technolog...
Read more →From an email I sent, just because: > “Dear CU: I bet you won’t print this one! But maybe you can respond to me personally. Check this out CU itself is a bad actor when it comes to magazine subscription renewals. ...
Read more →Scott Adams is the guy behind the famous Dilbert comics. I’ve not worked in a big corporation for a while and I’ve not been reading Dilbert for quite a while too. But Scott Adams remains a brilliant humourist. This post however, is not meant as humour: [Scott Adams Blog: I Hope My Father Dies Soon ...
Read more →A fascinating although quite long article by Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair. Michael Lewis is an amazing non-fiction writer, best known to me for Moneyball (about baseball) and Liars Poker (about Wall Street.) [Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? | Vani...
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