Hackadelic on May 31st, 2009

Originally, Google developed algorithms that were meant to reflect the relevance of a HTML page to a user seeking information. In times when people were not SEO-aware yet, a page that ranked high in search results did so because it’s content deserved it. Hence, page rank really meant that: A rank for that page’s content.
Things [...]

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Hackadelic on April 13th, 2009

The other day I started a System Recovery1 on my Vista. Surprisingly (or actually not so surprisingly), I’ve been prompted with the following initial message (translation from German, underlining mine):

In case you don’t know, since Windows XP the operating system creates recovery points before every installation. If something goes wrong during the installation or an [...]

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Hackadelic on March 25th, 2009

Once upon a time, I wrote an article called “Obama’s SEO Counterstrike“. It was written out of a twofold motivation: Mr. Obama’s (then-current) high-quality speeches, his rhetorical skills, and his extraordinary expressive power, which stood in strong contrast to the average, highly uninspired language frequently found on the Internet – a phenomenon I dislike, and [...]

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Hackadelic on January 22nd, 2009

I usually stay out of politics, not because I’m indifferent, but because there never seemed to be a big difference between this or that party, this or that candidate, this or that government. It always appeared to me as if behind different faces it was all the same old bullshit.
Until Obama came…

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Hackadelic on January 8th, 2009

Have you noticed the increasing uniformity of how blog posts are being named these days? At every turn, there seems to be the same simple, supremely uncreative title pattern. You know, titles like
69 Hot Tips For A Perfect Love Life
or
How To Make A Billion Dollar In 3 Easy Steps
This “style” has spread like a malicious [...]

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Hackadelic on December 21st, 2008

When I wrote “Psychology Of IT Language“, I brought up the aspect of communication of principles, the implicit communication of values, and its possible psychological impact on an organization.
As I’m further contemplating about it, patterns begin to disclose themselves. Two such patterns are Chinese Whisper and Boiling Frog. But before I go into them, an [...]

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Hackadelic on December 10th, 2008

In “The Costs Of Not Doing Something Else“, I made the aside conclusion that John’s trek only needed to meet some minimum criteria in order to be considered a success. That is an inherent property of what can be called an uncompetitive system.1
Coming back from treks to projects, I state:

An uncompetitive system is a system [...]

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Hackadelic on November 27th, 2008

I’ve already used a smaller variant of this picture in my previous post, but it fits just so nicely into the whole simplicity topic, it simply must be shown in big again.
With no further words – here it is:

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Hackadelic on November 17th, 2008

In two recent posts, I wrote about , and . There’s a particular point of interest related to these posts:
A common – and very understandable – motivation for requiring code to be “dumb” is the reasoning that if the code was dumb, then less skilled – and less paid – programmers could take on software [...]

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Hackadelic on November 15th, 2008

In a recent post, inspired by an interview with Kirk Pepperdine, I’ve presented my view about the notions of “dumb” and “clever” code. Kirk’s reaction to it prompted me to think about the topic once more.
While I’m perfectly aware that in it’s origin, the notion of “dumb code” has been meant as synonym for “simple [...]

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