Giving up on Google Appengine

Quitter’s journal: After trying for half of week of getting some stuff going on appengine here is what I observed.
The runtime is completely different. They do try however to patch the normal python runtime in the sdk to have the same characteristics as the runtime on their servers but differences fall through the cracks. The [...]

Finished my formal CS studies – quite disappointing

Finally ! After 4 years of half extremely boring lab-work and excruciating math exams i get a Computer Science diploma. Fuckintastic !
Was it worth it ? Well, for one thing, i get a diploma – we’ll see if that really helps me at anything at all. But did it learnt me anything? Little.
Set aside the [...]

ClearType is for color blind people

I was going to title it as ‘ClearType sucks’ but anyway.
ClearType uses a technique named subpixel rendering that absolutely sucks – at least for me. Say for example i have some black text on white background then the subpixel rendering will make some adjacent pixels have some colors. Take a example, Consolas, a font that [...]

Twitter fails at teh interwebs

I mean really, i would run a development site like that. I wonder where they learnt to do web programming since I see a bunch of failures:

javascripts aren’t concatenated, not even compressed – a lot of unnecessary http requests.
static content doesn’t have proper caching headers – more unnecessary http requests.
slow servers – i mean really, [...]