Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Our Sick Society

Posted on 2010-01-28 by Stephan Sokolow

A few months ago, my mother sent me an interesting TED talk about motivation. It turns out that the carrot-and/or-stick model for encouraging rewards stifles creativity. We need more businesses like Atlassian and Google which employ “intrinsic motivation” (you do … Continue reading →

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SQL Pagination Without OFFSET

Posted on 2009-12-23 by Stephan Sokolow

Just thought I’d look up how people paginate efficiently in SQLite since, apparently, OFFSET is just an alias for “discard N first results”. The recommended solution is to use a WHERE clause to mimic offset using the same column index … Continue reading →

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Functional Programming Concepts for the Lay Programmer – Part 1

Posted on 2009-12-21 by Stephan Sokolow

Update: Part 2 is finally available. Despite the growing interest in functional programming, most people (myself included) seem to have a lot of trouble grasping the core concepts and constructs. (Probably because the early adopters are all, to some extent, … Continue reading →

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My First Impression of Google Wave

Posted on 2009-11-28 by Stephan Sokolow

Well, I finally got an invite to Google Wave. I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet, but my first impression is that it could potentially be just the thing I need for collaborative story planning… once … Continue reading →

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LCDProc and the PCIDEA 20×4 LCD display

Posted on 2009-11-03 by Stephan Sokolow

A couple of weeks ago, I got it into my head that the death of Blinkenlights was a bad thing. My primary PC already has a little LCD on the keyboard (I got a deal on a first-generation Logitech G15 … Continue reading →

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More Programming Humor

Posted on 2008-12-17 by Stephan Sokolow

If programming languages were cars… If programming languages were religions… Just a couple more fun lists for people who enjoyed If Version Control Systems Were Airlines and Some more geek humor. UPDATE: If PCs were toasters

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Getting The Selected Text as HTML Using Javascript

Posted on 2008-12-03 by Stephan Sokolow

I’m not really on top of my time management yet, but this was hard enough to find that I think it warrants a blog post anyway… Have you ever tried looking up how to use Javascript to get the selected … Continue reading →

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