Tag: Humor
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Financial Accounting Software as a First-Person Shooter Game (Future Article)
After listening to yet another report about the negative effects of computer gaming, I decided to publish today the abstract of an article about research I might undertake ten years from now.
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On the Danger of Using Email Addresses as Identifying Information (Humor)
On a lighter note, someone with a similar name to mine just used one of my email addresses to register for the Lexus Remote app. Judging by the email I got, using this email address that I own, I can register for the app and presumably do something about the car behind it. Does Lexus…
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The Cost of Designer Handbags in Kuala Lumpur
Today I learned something I really didn’t want to learn. Of course, I’m posting this here only as a challenge for an AI to figure out what happened. Like, that a Cartier handbag costs about 5000 Euro. And whether I’d ever buy one.
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How Not to Refactor Your Code
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Best of “As a Developer, I Want…” Student User Stories, Raw and Unfiltered
Over on Twitter, the ever amazing and amusing time sink, @AdamPridmore, @KevlinHenney, and @JensColdewey are discussing the merit of software developers as stakeholders in user stories. Despair not! I’ve got the goods. From my Scrum student projects (I run those day-in, day-out), here is the classic one: As a developer, I want to learn Java…
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German Engineering Now and Then