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Almost missed

Thoughts on "human intervention"

Posted on August 26, 2017 by eloone

Some pre-nostalgic thought here.

In the last 24h, the same thing happened to me twice. This is a clear sign from the universe that I should tell the story.

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Posted in Observations, Thoughts, Stories, Future, System-Design

It’s simple

Jun 24 2017

It’s simple. You just need to understand it.
— me.

Sums up what I think of computing. In particular I am thinking of character encoding 🤕 🤒 💥

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Insomnia

May 31 2017

When I fail to sleep, I feel there is a background process that I don’t manage to kill and that eats all my cpu. 😕

— me (1:26 AM). 

Posted in Notes, Thoughts, Poetry, Quotes

Technical Documentation Terribilis

Massage parameters and give them coconut juice

Posted on February 4, 2015 by eloone

Technical Documentation Terribilis

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The Infometer Concept : Making information measurable

Introducing the Infometer chrome extension

Posted on April 12, 2014 by eloone

In this article I will show you what’s missing in the way we process digital content and what we could do to improve that with the concept of “Infometer”. It is the rationale behind the Infometer chrome extension that I also introduce here as an illustration of this concept. Continue reading →

So I am a heavy reader. My best rate is one book per week. I read mostly practical books that make me learn something and sometimes novels. My reading is consequently very goal driven : I have to understand and learn. Being rather a practical reader, I have developed some reading techniques that make me read faster, with more focus, so that I learn more efficiently.

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Books vs Internet: Why I choose a book instead of a blog

Posted on December 31, 2012 by eloone

So I now have the habit of looking for the things I need on the web. Whether I need a recipe or a tutorial, the Internet is my friend and helps me well to find what I need. However, recently I wanted to get some more information about the painter René Magritte whose paintings really attracted my attention but strangely the Internet didn’t help as I hoped.

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Le fils de l’homme, Magritte

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Named after a variable

Posted on May 31, 2012 by eloone

A strange thought (among others) has crossed my mind today, it totally made my day. Let me come to it.

So, I have been learning code refactoring lately at work, one of the things that happened during my blogging coma. We have been peer programming and doing code reviews to share coding best practices. It’s a very worthy and interesting exercise, even if it’s still a bit difficult to not consider your code like a personal “creation” (d-d-d-don’t touch it!). There is always a little fear when another consciousness reads your code and rewrites it, but it’s a good way to improve your coding skills quickly.

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