Category: Thoughts
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No More Grey, There’s Only ‘Like’ And… What Else?
Coming up with a grade, be it in tenths or 1-to-5 stars, is not easy. If you lurk around Google Play, you’ll notice that apps rated 4 or better tend to polarize the vast majority of votes on 5, 4, and 1 stars. There’s significantly less people giving 3 or 2 stars. That is easily…
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Fly Me To Mars
The latest issue of MIT’s Technology Review sports an aging Buzz Aldrin, disappointed at how technology got us Facebook instead of proper space exploration. Sure Facebook is useful to millions, but it’s not the level of development and technological advancement that Aldrin and many others were hoping for. We’re so close, and yet so far.…
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Still Fighting – For Different Reasons
On July 2nd, 2012, I stopped being an entrepreneur. It’s been sort of a silent transition, but it happened nonetheless. Threeplicate, the startup I cofounded, is still there, but on its way to oblivion. We’ve ceased all operations and evaluating how to handle liquidation and all related (boring, time-consuming, expensive and I’d say painful) activities.…
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On Object-Oriented Programming
Object-oriented programming, or OOP, is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” – usually instances of a class – consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. In practical terms, to build a program, you define objects that contain data and expose operations (called methods). A typical,…
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Eating Your Own Dog Food
Eating your own dog food, or dogfooding, is a term coined adopted by Microsoft indicating that a software company should use its own products internally. It’s true, and Microsoft does it. Internally, the company runs on its own products, and each team even uses pre-release versions of their products, such as Office, Exchange, Windows, whatever.…