January 2012
1 post
Jan 22nd
November 2011
2 posts
Clojure on Hadoop: A New Hope →
Nov 3rd
Korma - Tasty SQL for Clojure →
Nov 2nd
October 2011
5 posts
Letter to Menoeceus →
Oct 30th
Ordasity is Boundary's library for building... →
Oct 20th
Voices of finance: Interview with a HFT programmer →
Oct 18th
The Food Lab: The Road To Better Risotto →
Oct 11th
London Transport Museum depot open this weekend →
Oct 3rd
September 2011
8 posts
Cocktail 101: Five Essential Gin Cocktails →
Sep 29th
London's secret gardens →
I love Bunhill fields, and Finsbury Circus is unfortunately closed due to Crossrail works. I’ll have to check out the others.
Sep 28th
Sep 27th
Betting on the Blind Side →
How one guy just read the terms of sub-prime mortgage bonds in 2004 and made $825 million.
Sep 27th
Cooking "The Best Chili Ever". Yum. →
Don’t miss the research portion
Sep 25th
Books about history →
Guy on HN braindumps a history reading list. Looks pretty awesome to me.
Sep 25th
The Case Against News →
For me, it was realising that The Economist can’t even fill a weekly with relevant news.
Sep 25th
These are some very neat fonts →
Sep 25th
October 2010
1 post
Double considered harmful
or: How the number 1.2 cramped my style.. So, everybody who paid attention in college CS knows this. Heck, I didn’t always pay attention, and I knew it, but it still caught me by surprise when I hit my head on this issue in the real world. Recapping the background: The double (as we know it in Java) is short for “double precision binary floating-point format”, and they are the...
Oct 18th
April 2010
1 post
Beautiful doesn't make it true
Yesterday, @christianevejlo tweeted interest in whether volcano-grounded planes were a net benefit for the environment. Retweeting an answer, she referenced Information is Beautiful’s post “Planes or Volcano”, an indeed aesthetically pleasing illustration of the CO2 emissions of the European aviation industry next to that of the Icelandic volcano. I replied that...
Apr 18th
3 notes
March 2010
2 posts
S/SF dropper skattestop, R jubler
»Vi har brudt med skattestoppet. Vi har sagt klart og tydeligt, at der er brug for flere indtægter«, siger Helle Thorning-Schmidt  http://politiken.dk/politik/article926636.ece I landet med verdens højeste skattetryk er det udtryk for allerhøjeste grad af fantasiløshed når man ikke kan “financiere velfærden” uden at skulle stramme skatteskruen. Mer’ vil ha’ mer’ -...
Mar 18th
Institutioner tvunget til at betale 11 kroner for... →
Næste gang venstrefløjen kræver flere penge til det offentlige, så husk denne sag. Københavns Kommune har været Socialdemokratisk ledet i 82 år, og ansvaret for indkøbsaftaler ligger på overborgmesterens kontor. Et ofte hørt argument mod privatisering, er at det vil blive dyrere når der også skal sidde en ejer og tjene på det. Den lader vi lige stå et øjeblik.
Mar 11th
February 2010
1 post
I can haz vanity domainz?
My new domain ma.rtinseeba.ch is now live! The idea is that I can get the emailaddress m@rtinseeba.ch. Then I’ll finally be hip & cool.
Feb 3rd