• Testing for search result quality

    I've been faced with a bit of a problem lately, how to test the quality of results being produced from a changing dataset? It's easy to write unit tests for components of an application, and to make sure they're producing the expected results, but how do you test end to...


  • I have no idea what I'm doing

    It's very, very hard for us to admit that we're wrong, let alone that we have no clue what we're doing. The first step of course is being able to admit that you've got a problem and before you can admit you have a problem you need to be able...


  • Working from home

    I've been working form home for quite some time now, in the beginning I lived alone and I worked from home a few days a week. Working the balance in an office with real people. I found I was far more productive when I was in an home than in...


  • Hiring startup hackers

    I've seen a lot of posts recently about how to go about hiring hackers. Well not just recently, it seems to be common thing people ask, because it's one of the hardest things to do. You're using an interview, or even a series of interviews to try your best to...


  • What's with the twitter spam?

    I'm starting to get lots of messages about people following me, they've got one post and it's a link to "check them out" lots of new pics added. I've been blocking them as they show up, because I only have a few followers. I wonder how the popular people, who...