Tag: Humor
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Favorite story of student entrepreneur ageism
I teach a course on software product management where I sometimes cross over into startup-land. During a recent class, I showed students a rara-talk by a VC, who was trying to convince them to become entrepreneurs. So I asked the class: Statistically speaking, a 40-year old entrepreneur is much more likely to succeed than a…
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For posteriority and reuse
FIWare is a large EU-sponsored program. It has a mission (“about”) statement. Specifically: FIWare is an open initiative aiming to create a sustainable ecosystem to grasp the opportunities that will emerge with the new wave of digitalization caused by the integration of recent Internet technologies. […] Below is a screenshot documenting the project.
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Dating Design Patterns Skit Script
While cleaning up, I found this copy of the OOPSLA 2004 Dating Design Patterns skit script. The skit itself was, as Brian Foote called it, occasionally humorous. I’m providing it here (before throwing out the paper copy) for the intermittent professional entertainment on my blog. We performed the skit at OOPSLA 2004. Fortunately, I don’t…
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The Imperfection of Search Algorithms
This is a professional blog, so I usually leave humorous excursions into my life to my personal blog. Well, unless there is good reason for an exception. Today was such a day. That’s because today to much fanfare a new search service, improbably named CUIL was launched. A friend alerted me to the observation that…