Why Every CS Student Should Freelance
Kalyan’s tweet on freelancing reminded me of some recent conversations that I’ve had with several C/S students who recently completed their thesis. The conversation basically boils down to “Why should I spend time on freelance assignments when I don’t really need the money?“ I can only suggest that C/S students think of freelance assignments as [...]
To reiterate: No, I don’t use PayPal
This is one of the many reasons why I stopped using PayPal years ago. Somewhere along the line, I think that they forgot that they urge you to tie your PayPal account to your checking account, the same account that you use to pay your rent/mortgage. Then they want a back up funding source. So, [...]
The Words Of The Prophets Were Written On Sea Containers
I found this today and it made me chuckle: Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting HOLY SHIT, WHAT A RIDE! Or did you expect that you’d get out of life alive? Enough said, this highly air [...]
Time for more hobbies
For the longest time, my favorite hobby has been to find some interesting program and pick it apart, or write one of my own. I’m probably one of the few GNU/Linux users who have actually obtained the source code for the core utilities and modified them to suit my needs. I’ve also hacked my kernel [...]
The “Drop a quarter” campaign
We’re currently flooded with various campaigns that promise, at best, speculative results. Here is a campaign that you can join with no fear, I’m starting it. Drop a quarter! Why, oh why would you drop a quarter? The answer is easy, someone will find your quarter and their day will be supercharged. If you like, [...]
Eat Bulaga! An example most broadcasters should follow
I do not watch much broadcast TV. Quite frankly, most broadcast TV sucks. I’ve been in The Philippines for almost four years and have given up on HBO Asia, HBO seems to assume that most people living in Asia are criminals who will ‘pirate’ all broadcasts, so they feed us 20 year old B movies.
Do or do not? (is there a try?)
If you have ever watched Star Wars, you’re likely familiar with the Yoda character. Yoda is a Jedi, what Lucas might have envisioned the Samurai to be in an ancient but advanced society. Yoda is famous for saying “Do or do not, there is no try”. A lot of people seem to miss out what [...]
More OLPC uproar
I think its safe to say that most ideas are great until implemented by human beings. Once again, the Free/Open source community is up in arms over Microsoft products (optionally) shipping on the one laptop per child. The resignation of OLPC’s chief software architect Walter Bender shows a clear and broadening difference of opinion and [...]
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