Archive for the 'essay' Category

The Unexotic Underclass | The MIT Entrepreneurship Review

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Excellent essay, very eloquent. I do not agree with all points, but this is definitely a worth a read.

The Unexotic Underclass | The MIT Entrepreneurship Review

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Excellent essay, very eloquent. I do not agree with all points, but this is definitely a worth a read.

The Lord of the Rings – a review by a Tolkien-virgin

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

A review of three Lord of The Ring movies from someone who never read Tolkin’s books before. Hllarios, read it of you have 30 minutes to spare. Taken from AVVA ( http://avva.livejournal.com/ )

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle [by Peter Norvig]

Friday, April 15th, 2011

An essay by Peter Norvig showing how to program sudoku solver.
Note: Read this if you are a software developer . Even better is to print it out and read it with a pencil.

Tomgram: William Astore, Six Vows to Support Our Troops | TomDispatch

Monday, April 4th, 2011

“greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all.”
An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed “support the troops”.

Getting shot by a handgun – tidypub

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

Detailed description of what it feels like when you being shot (in a chest , small caliber, point-blank range)

Analysis from the Bottom Up | The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

tells about problems with IT in HealthCare and Obama’s electronic records plan from one person’s 1fst hand experience. Make user u read the comments. (allow 30-40 minutes )

Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability

Monday, August 4th, 2008

good essay about software usability in regards to open source software. Much of what he says is true.

Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds

Friday, October 19th, 2007

excellent essay! “algorithm of evolution” describes predictive-markets and statistical prediction

Alarming Development : Beautiful Code

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Jonathan Edwards, currently a Research Fellow at MIT with the Software Design Group. He writes a blog called Alarming Development to better understand the creative act of programming, and to help liberate it from the primitive state of our art.