I love Hollywood movies. They project a surreal world that in which all stories have a happy ending. Whenever the hero seems to be cornered and rapidly heading to his doom, a last-second turn of events allows him to escape. This is deus ex machina. God from the machine. To the rescue. I'm thinking back at many movies I so enjoyed. Terminator, Die Hard (yeah, right), Batman, Ironman, Indiana. Deus ex machina all over. I denounce them. Think of … read on »
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Mac wars
Oh, that “I’m a Mac” commercial is on the TV again. Then some ugly new ad where some webcam people defend the PCs on behalf of Microsoft: “I’m a PC”. While my brain was tricked into an attempted wash, I realized that I’m not any of it. I’m a human being. I’m not trying to help you here Redmond but voila, here’s one good ad slogan: I am not a machine. I’m a human being. And I use … read on »
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My name is Florin Duroiu, I’m a software engineer in Berlin, Germany. This blog is about my day to day encounters with the challenges in software development and life at large.
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