Book review of Rogers’ “On Becoming a Person”
“On Becoming a Person” offers its readers an optimistic perspective on human nature and our capability to live a fulfilling life. Dr Carl Rogers, a psychotherapist best known for his work on client...
“On Becoming a Person” offers its readers an optimistic perspective on human nature and our capability to live a fulfilling life. Dr Carl Rogers, a psychotherapist best known for his work on client...
“Understanding Petri Nets” by Wolfgang Reisig is an academic introduction to the topic of Petri nets. I decided to read it because Petri nets were a thing that I have heard about a few times, but...
Choosing a portfolio is a daunting task for beginning, amateur investors. It’s difficult to translate rudimentary knowledge and well-meaning, but general advice, into concrete numbers representing ...
On one lazy evening I checked out what new flash games that have appeared on Kongregate. That lead to me discover Pixelo - a nonogram puzzle game with well done GUI and lots of puzzles. I really en...
Creativity Inc is Ed Calmutt’s story about his career, the rise of Pixar and people who played part in it, and most of all, a collection of management advice from the president of one the most cr...
In one of my current prototype projects I need to encode voice into binary data and then later transfer it through a voice channel. This forced me to push my limits and learn new things which I wil...
In the previous post I have explained the rationale behind my Pentago game implementation. Here I will show how I have used Haskell’s profiling tools to uncover, understand, and fix serious time a...
Motivation My roommate received a Pentago game for Christmas. She knew and liked it, hence the gift, and wanted to try it out to me. Unfortunately for me, I really dislike losing - I’m afraid it’s...
I believe that work should be as automated as possible. Although there are already many existing tools for all kinds of tasks in programmer’s daily life: compiling, deployment etc. I couldn’t find ...
This post will summarise history of the early programming languages as written in Knuth’s article “The early development of programming languages”. Most of the work in this post was done by him. I...