Tom Schlenkhoff

Feb 16

“I’m no fan of XML either. It seems overused in many Java systems. I like to say that JSON is a representation while XML is a career path.” — http://blog.eisele.net/2012/02/heroes-of-java-ward-cunningham.html

Feb 09

Rebels, may the force be with you. Always.

Feb 08

Couldn’t we implement something to convey age, privacy, affiliation, and payment terms for a site or service? Privacy issues are already hard to track and it isn’t getting any easier.

Couldn’t we implement something to convey age, privacy, affiliation, and payment terms for a site or service? Privacy issues are already hard to track and it isn’t getting any easier.

Adventures in Design Thinking class -

The Bootcamp Bootleg is more of a cook book than a text book, and more of a constant work-in-progress than a polished and permanent piece.

Jan 18

Clausewitz: Nebel des Krieges

I thought it might be interesting to talk about how the U.S. Marines are trained to make decisions in the fog of war. They call it the 70% solution.

  1. If you have 70% of the information you’d like to have
  2. If you’ve done 70% of the analysis that you think is required
  3. And feel 70% confident that you are right, then get on with it

The Marine Corp teaches their young officers that a well-reasoned decision, that’s well executed, has a fair chance of success, but no action has no chance of success.

(Source)

Jan 12

Startup Marketing Lessons Learned by Leo

Nov 17

“We will find a way. Or make one.” — Hannibal Barca, 247 BC – 182 BC

Oct 28

“SendGrid: Free or Bronze accounts are tiered IP groups based on reputation, so if you guys are not bouncing a lot of emails and don’t have many complaints you will filter into the highest tier of IPs which will have better delivery rates than the lower tiers. I believe we have four tiers total, so that gives some better granularity to pair better customers with better customers rather than lumping you all together.” — http://mechanicalbee.com/2011/sendgrid_heroku_addon.html

Oct 06

iPhone keynote tuesday - Front row, center. Reserved. Empty.

iPhone keynote tuesday - Front row, center. Reserved. Empty.

“Thank you, Steve!”

Oct 05

“Entrepreneurs: The End Is Near. Refinance.” — http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/09/28/entrepreneurs-the-end-is-near-refinance/

Sep 26

“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.”

“Aus dem Vorbeschleuniger (SPS) des Large Hadron Colliders werden über Kicker-Magnete 10,4-µs-lange Protonenbündel mit 400 GeV ausgekoppelt. Ihnen aufmoduliert ist die Synchrotronfrequenz von 500 kHz und die Radiofrequenz von 200 MHz. Die Zeitstruktur der Bündel wird in einem Beam Current Transformer Detector (BCT) mit einem hochauflösenden Wave Form Digitizer (WFD) mit 1 Gigasamples/s bestimmt. Die Protonen knallen auf einen 2 m langen Graphitblock, wobei Mesonen (Pionen, Kaonen) produziert werden. Diese Mesonen zerfallen irgendwo im 1000 m langen Vakuumtunnel in Myonen, wobei Myon-Neutrinos entstehen.” — http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/CERN-erlaeutert-das-Neutrino-Experiment-1349436.html

Sep 21

In unserer Reihe: Wir begrüssen den Papst

Ein FSM-Poster zum herunterladen, bestehend aus 24 DIN-A4 Seiten zum leichten selber ausdrucken (Ca. 1,30m x 70 cm). Mit Paketband auf der Rückseite verstärken und - zur Begrüßung aufhängen.

Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster Poster print-it-yourself.

Thanks to BlockPosters.com.

Sep 09

Private equity investors are financial engineers

A few quotes from this nice article: The tricks investors use against us

Private Equity investors are foremost rewarded for protecting their fund’s capital.

We are more interested in good low-risk businesses, than great high-risk businesses.

What we won’t mention is that very few of the people we deal with represent good, solid, low-risk businesses willing to sell equity at below market rates. Founders need to create this perceptionin order to gain the upper hand.

They are financial and legal engineers.