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The Borator: June 2009
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Sunday, June 28, 2009. Of Hawks and Doves. The Prisoner's Dilemma is a well known game. The basis is very simple: two prisoners are being questioned for a crime and have the choice to either COOPERATE. With the other prisoner, or to DEFECT. If they both cooperate, they both get the REWARD. 3 points). If they both defect, they both get the PUNISHMENT. 1 point). The juicy part is if one defects, while the other cooperates. In this case the defectors gets the TEMPTATION. Public abstract class Agent {. The f...
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The Borator: August 2009
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. As of September 1st, I will no longer be working as a full-time employee of Independent IP. I will still be involved in an advisory role. The last three years have been a wild roller coaster ride and I am incredibly proud at the things we achieved together. I stood at the cradle of little Fuga. It is a kind of magic to nurture and grow a product like this. Very intensive, but very rewarding, more so if customers are happy and benefits are visible to everyone. Wrong people off ...
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The Borator: Geeh... migration
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Last saturday we migrated two separate email domains and our Google Apps domain into one Google account. Besides the mailboxes, we therefore also had to set up Google Talk buddy lists, export/import the calendars and copy the Google documents. We started by having a general reset on all passwords, so we could execute all phases easily. Google Talk is easy as well. There is a global setting which automatically makes domain users accept any buddy request - this is key! Google Do...
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The Borator: October 2009
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Sunday, October 18, 2009. How the Mighty Fall. Jim Collins, author of Good to Great. Is back with another book. Whereas Good to Great focused on what makes companies stand out, How the Mighty Fall. Inverts the equation by looking at the prime reasons for companies not making it. The author tries to apply the same sound formula; i) gather a lot of scientific data, ii) discern the patterns, iii) write a good book about it. Good to Great comes back with solid and applicable advice. Hubris born of success.
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The Borator: Case "Dynamic Order By" When?
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Thursday, December 17, 2009. Case "Dynamic Order By" When? The other day I ran into a nicety of SQL that I was not aware of. Not that that is special, but I think this nicely illustrates how the Old World has taken into account aspects which are not (yet) secured in the New World. Let us suppose you have a table that has a column called state. Within that column you have the following distinct values:. Let us also assume that you want to order retrieved rows in the exact same order as I listed the items.
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The Borator: January 2010
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Friday, January 1, 2010. For over two weeks, I have had the pleasure of reading books from Kindle's. Eye-friendly e-ink pages, instead of the more traditional paper pages. For loads of those) still cost to order from Amazon. I am very happy that the Kindle does not have a backlight. A lot of people I hear really dislike the Kindle not having a backlight, but I think it is a blessing. Let's face it - you either want a book or a computer screen; what's it gonna be? External light works better for me. Batte...
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The Borator: Kindle: Amazon's e-reader
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Friday, January 1, 2010. For over two weeks, I have had the pleasure of reading books from Kindle's. Eye-friendly e-ink pages, instead of the more traditional paper pages. For loads of those) still cost to order from Amazon. I am very happy that the Kindle does not have a backlight. A lot of people I hear really dislike the Kindle not having a backlight, but I think it is a blessing. Let's face it - you either want a book or a computer screen; what's it gonna be? External light works better for me. Batte...
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The Borator: On the value of identifying problems
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Sunday, April 10, 2011. On the value of identifying problems. There seems to be an unspoken agreement that the person pointing out a weak spot in a given situation, should also take the responsibility to put forward a solution to remedy that situation. Now the act of solving that problem takes you into the field of how things could be. One needs to be able to mentally take away certainties taken for granted, and rely on envisioning what can be different. Here we are talking about constructing the...There...
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The Borator: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009. And The Answer Was 42. I just started at 42. In true Hitchhiker's style, I got equipped with various handy galactic hiker equipment, first and foremost being the towel. Of course. Most interesting was the six-volume literary bundle and the threat that "a verbal will be taken soon". Glups. I guess I have to cancel my appointments and get down to it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). And The Answer Was 42. HTTP/2, smaller is better. Another elasticsearch blog post, now about Shield.
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