How I learned to program pt. 1
It’s very tempting to start this entry with a nostalgic description of all the old hardware and software I’ve ever worked with, but I’ll skip that part. When talking to other programmers, I’m more...
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This continues from part one. First job and the discovery of teamwork My first job was doing Java at an “e-commerce” firm. I spent some time churning out alone large amounts of code, and quickly...
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The concept of teamwork I briefly mention in the previous post warrants a post in itself. I’m absolutely not an authority on building and running teams, but just like anyone else in the programming...
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Category Theory for the Working Hacker. Philip Wadler, one of the most important computer scientists in existence, a person who is extremely well known within Haskell community, and a (falsely...
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Why you should never put “London” and “culture” together in a sentence
I normally restrain from posting my gripes about current affairs or politics publicly, but why not try once? I’ll write about culture — and money! — in different countries. This will be a start of my...
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On the beauty of foreign language prose
Reading long form in a foreign language is always difficult. I was withdrawing myself throughout all of 2016 from doing this — in my usual “provocative” manner, I was telling people who were willing to...
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Ceramics
I started going to pottery classes around August last year. Taking Christmas break in consideration, this means I’m now five months in; my home now has three ceramic pieces it didn’t had before....
View ArticleMetaphors of software
There is one ridiculously inadequate metaphor of programming, as explained to non-programmers: Programming is just like snapping together some Lego blocks. This one must be familiar to everyone in the...
View ArticleLearning to stick with the good
For the last few weeks, Facebook has been ad nauseum “recommending” me some company’s blog post about server-side Swift. I was relunctant, but after seeing it pop on my news feed so many times, I...
View Article8 March
Say what you want, but there’s no holiday out there that is as great as 8 March. See for yourself. It has started in the early 20th century as a day to celebrate the movement for equal rights for the...
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