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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers to finally learn enough about statistics to at least know they don’t know shit. I have no idea why, but their confidence in their lacking knowledge is only surpassed by their lack of confidence in their personal appearance.

A Day in America According to a (Baffled) Foreigner

Home | January 30, 15:46

And you know it's true...

Modern browsers for modern applications

Home | January 30, 10:36

Hear hear. Go Google :)

Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing?

Work | January 29, 13:17

Good piece on the iPad being a device to bring closed computer systems to the masses. Will this mean the beginning of the end of open systems where you are the master of your hardware?

What bothers me is that in terms of openness, the iPad is the same as the iPhone, but in terms of form factor, the iPad is essentially a general purpose computer. So it strikes me as a sort of Trojan horse that acculturates users to closed platforms as a viable alternative to open platforms, and not just when it comes to phones (which are closed pretty much across the board). The question we must ask ourselves as computer users is whether the tradeoff in freedom we make to enjoy Apple’s superior user experience is worth it.

Guitar Hero hits the Commodore 64

Work | January 28, 14:34

*wets pants*

Why GPSes suck, and what to do about it

Work | January 25, 15:02

I'm the lead of the GPSD project, a service daemon that monitors GPS receivers on serial or USB ports and provides TPV (time-position-velocity) reports in a simple format on on a well-known Internet port. GPSD makes this job looks easy. But it’s not — oh, it's decidedly not — and thereby hangs an entertaining tale of hacker ingenuity versus multiple layers of suck.

We Are Just a Tiny Station in the Milky Way Subway Map - Milky way transit authority

Home | January 23, 13:11

Good way of visualising our Milky Way galaxy and the tiny spot our little solar system is taking in.

[Dutch] Privacy Barometer - De actuele stand van de politiek over privacy

Work | January 19, 17:44

Site about our policians' stance on privacy etc.

Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

Work | January 18, 13:30

Most good programmers should be able to write out on paper a program which does this in a under a couple of minutes. Want to know something scary? The majority of comp sci graduates can't. I've also seen self-proclaimed senior programmers take more than 10-15 minutes to write a solution.