If “top geeks TV series” doesn’t make sense to you, more precisely, I’d like to list the most successful TV series that are obviously adressed to geeks. The serie takes bonus points if it features geeks.
1. The Office
2. Dilbert
3. Battlestar Gallactica
4. Futurama
5. Babylon V
6. Red Dwarf
7. The IT Crowd
8. The Big Bang Theory
9. Chuck
10. Stargate
Honourable mention goes to:
Anybody can write a great comic strip ?
I’m not so sure but there are definitely talented individuals out there. Here are my favourite works:
1. Dilbert
2. Sinfest
3. Penny Arcade
4. xkcd
5. Ctrl+alt+del
6. Wellington Grey
7. HandRooster
8. The Flowfield Unity
10. The Secret Live of Mobs
11. Canadian Waste
12. Dueling Analogs
13. The Warehouse
14. The Slackers
15. Foxtrot
16. Non Sequitur
17. Thingpart
18. Digital Unrest
19. Least I could do
Ok, I must confess I’m a geek.
http://www.askreamaor.com/misc/mysteries-of-the-geek-brain-we-will-never-explain
It became very clear after reading this article.
I present all of the characteristics traits:
In addition, I do a lot of juggling which, strangely enough, became one more characteristic of the geek culture. If you’re a geek too, feel free to leave a comment.
Ok, so christians believe in God and atheists believe God doesn’t exist.
Neither an atheist nor a Christian would sue God. But what if you are a former Christian deceived by God ?
You can sue God for fraud, breach of trust, abuse of a position of authority and misappropriation of goods.
God had to protect your poor soul from Satan and all things evil.
See: http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56680
It seems less risky than suing a priest for saying God or Jesus Christ exist, and even more funny.
Some flash games can become really addictive while being utterly stupid. For instance, clickclickclick offers an internatinal contest of clickers. There is a rank table showing how much clicking has been done by each country. If you want to be patriotic, you’ve got to click frenetically on a big red box. The gameplay is simplistic yet addictive, at least for 5 minutes.
Boxhead 2 on the other hand, is a nice zombie survivor game. It introduces a shoot counter giving you updrades when you’re in your best killing spree. The variety of upgrades and the big number of enemies renew the gameplay at each level, making you play for hours.
I’ve been working for two months and a half in a middle sized company. After using successfully my software engineering skills on a first project, I can play with new technologies on a second one.
It’s quite different from where I worked previously, there were only 7 people and no new projects, I worked on only one big project for three years. Hopefully, there were various interesting aspects to work on.
What I find the most amusing in this new company, it’s when people try to look important. They are always working intensively or pretending to. They put pressure on themselve to accomplish their little goals but the real goal in my opinion is to make it look as if they are doing important things, making them a little more important.
When talking to someone for instance, some consultants take more care to look smart in their response than they care for the question and its context.
What’s worst is that being in an open space, we hear every little chief scolding their subordinates or every expert getting pissed at some newbies.
On the bright side, some people have an excellent sense of humor, they make everybody laugh a lot when they come by to discuss some more or less important issue.
Some facts are ignored by the masses because it doesn’t fit their views. Because of education or because of the propaganda organised by their country, most people ignore important facts. I think it can make a very interesting serie of posts, so here is the first one.
The emblem of Firefox is not a fire fox but a red panda.
However, the Thunderbird logo really represent a thunder bird taken from indian mythology.
Windows Explorer is nice but it doesn’t have good features, usability or performances. It’s merely a Microsoft file manager interface which exists since Windows 3.1.
There are quite a lot of replacements for Explorer, the top ten ones would be:
First things first, but not necessarily in that order. 
In software development as in other complex activities, it’s good to have a linear roadmap to guide us along the process. A simple checklist can greatly improve our ability to complete a software project.
My favourite one is taken from The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World . I think it’s a great book that every software developer should read.
1. Management states high-level requirements.
2. Programmers formalize the requirements in detail.
3. Management approves detailed requirements.
4. Programmers identify testing resources.
5. Management approves testing resources.
6. Programmers estimate duration of design phase.
7. Testers estimate duration of test plan creation.
8. Management approves design and test plan efforts.
9. Programmers perform design phase.
10. Testers begin development of test plan.
11. Programmers estimate duration of estimation phase.
12. Management approves estimation phase.
13. Programmers perform task partitioning.
14. Programmers perform detailed estimate in hours.
15. Management may allocate additional programming resources.
16. Programmers define timeline with incremental milestones.
17. Management approves the timeline.
18. Programmers begin implementation.
19. Testing begins when software deliverables are available.
20. Programmers complete implementation.
21. Testers perform full regression testing.
22. Programmers define integration procedures.
23. Programmers implement installation program.
24. Testers perform full regression testing including installation and integration.
25. Testers approve beta release.
26. Beta testing begins.
27. Testers perform free play testing in parallel with beta.
28. Beta testing complete.
29. Testers perform full regression testing including installation and integration.
30. Testers approve product release.
31. Management or marketing begin distribution.
32. Programmers collapse in corner and sleep for three days.
Pour changer, voici un article en français. De toutes façons, je n’ai pas beaucoup de temps en ce moment pour mettre à jour mon blog et il n’y a pas beaucoup de lecteurs.
Après les excellentes séries américaines Desperate Housewives et Weeds, Canal+ va diffuser en clair la parodie canadienne de La Petite Maison dans la Prairie.
Elle “raconte le quotidien d’une communauté musulmane qui a établi sa mosquée dans la salle paroissiale de l’église anglicane de Mercy, une localité de l’Ouest Canadien.” Cette série diffusée en janvier dernier sur CBC a séduit le public avec plus de 2 millions de téléspectateurs. On l’attend avec impatience.
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