Reality Loop

October 18, 2011
Tidbit: Lines of Code

According to a claim in the Non Relational Data Stores Panel, the query parser in MySQL alone spans 100'000 lines of code in C and the whole Cassandra Database is 30'000 lines of Java.I don't know what to deduce from that, but it is certainly inte...
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October 11, 2011
Pimping my MacBook

I am attempting probably one of the most stupid things: pimping a MacBook ... The patient is ready. Let's get started. Patient is opened. Pulse is steady. The offending organ has been removed. The replacement organs fit well ......
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October 06, 2011
Enterprise IT: immature and simple?

Once you've admitted to yourself that you're a bad programmer, you can stop all the silly posturing and pretending that you're great, and you can look around and find the best possible tools to help you look smarter than you are.- You're a Bad Pr...
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September 29, 2011
Thinking out of the Box

In requirements analysis we learn to pop the why stack and to challenge business requirements.The goal of these techniques is to find the real business value at the heart of a given requirement. This real business value is often hidden by an alrea...
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September 27, 2011
Back at University - Things have changed

Recently I started studying for MAS-MTEC at ETH Zürich.A characteristic of this post graduate studies is that most lectures are shared with graduate students.I am impressed at how much studying today has changed from when I was studying a decade a...
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