Category: Society
Rules-schmules
February 5th, 2012This set of rules is designed to help me stay on my path without breaking my moral standards. The reason I need this to be written down is because when I am under pressure exerted by someone else, I can get too focused on the matter at hand and fail… more »
Six degrees of separation
September 24th, 2011Many moons ago, if you happened to see a nice girl, it would take many weeks of "hanging out in the same area" at different times of the day, hoping that chance would intersect your paths again.
You would ruminate on that memory of her fading in and o… more »
Business as usual
April 9th, 2011An interesting thing happened to me a few days ago. I was browsing the web and studying our competitors and their offers - business as usual. more »
Why students should stay in school and why aliens have a good reason to stay home
February 27th, 2011In the not-so-distant 2045, humanity achieved a significant milestone. Years upon decades upon centuries of research yielded the technology eagerly anticipated by sci-fi writers and dreamers.Interstellar space-travel became feasible and cost effective.… more »
Notes on "A general theory of love"
February 13th, 2011This is an outline of the book called A general theory of love. It covers many interesting topics, among them: how people learn, how relationships are formed, why they fail, the structure of the brain, the brains of different types of life forms, etc more »
User experience research lab
January 7th, 2011What's cooking? Something new and tasty, take a look: http://info.railean.net/index.php?title=UX_labIf the doors of the lab were open, would you be interested in joining the research team? more »
Short-circuit evaluation in relationships
January 3rd, 2011Short-circuit evaluation is a trick that saves time and resources. The idea is very simple - if a decision requires multiple conditions to be true, there is no need to continue analyzing the case if at least one of them is false.This is often used in… more »
The limitations of virtualization
December 31st, 2010Note: this is about the virtualization of reality, not the virtualization of physical software systems. Regardless of what you thought it would be about, read on ;-)I think there is a fundamental problem with the idea of living in a simulated world.… more »
Dacă mâine ar dispărea religia
December 4th, 2010Cititorule, imaginează-ți ce s-ar întâmpla, dacă de mâine nu ar exista religia. Dacă ar dispărea conceptul de religie, cu tot cu religiile care implementează acest concept. Meditează timp de vre-o 3 minute, apoi revino la lectura acestui text. more »
Eu nu sunt român
November 27th, 2010Consider că e straniu să te mândrești cu ceva ce nu e al tău, cu o imagine pe care nu ți-ai construit-o singur sau cu ceva ce nu e o consecință a eforturilor tale. more »
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