Resurrection, and updates

I could tell from the sheer number of WordPress updates that awaited me that it’s certainly been a while since I wrote here on this blog. But part of my pre-New Year’s resolution is to start writing here more – hopefully I can develop some more interesting ideas and keep growing as a writer.

I’ve learned a ton from my first semester at Harvard – where I think I’ll study computer science, though I don’t declare a major till next year – and I’ve developed an interest in seeing how technology impacts other fields – politics, economics, Bildung, sports, was auch immer – in addition to technology for its own sake. So with this reboot of the blog, so to speak, I’ll work to explore the intersection of technology and other fields.

Warum es ist genial, ein Entwickler

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Offenbar, diese sind ein Haufen von Computer-Programmierer.

Ninjas.

Das ist, was Computer-Programmierer sind, die sich selbst heute. Der Beruf (wenn Sie selbst nennen es, dass) geht durch eine Litanei von nicht allzu glamourösen Namen, Entwickler wie, Programmierer, Ingenieur, Techniker, und mehr Sachen, die nicht so recht machen Sie das beliebteste Kerl im Raum. Daher, viele, er, Programmierer (in Ermangelung eines besseren Wortes) gehen durch ninja oder so. Das finde ich etwas ärgerlich – Sie Code, nicht das Töten von Feinden des Kaisers. Aber ich schweife ab.

Sorry für Ausfallzeiten – auch, Requisiten WebHostingHub

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Fehler 404, Elefanten nicht gefunden

tl;drhathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Auch, I apologize for the fanboyishnessit’s just that WHH is that awesome.

I was recently working with some so-called cutting-edge web programming techniques (parsing JSON using PHP from client requests using JavaScript and jQuerytold you it was gory) und erkannte, Ich brauchte eine neue Version einer Software auf der Server dass hathix lebt.

Wie spricht man “hathix”?

His name's hathix.
An elephant in a box.

You’d think I get that question a lot, but actually I don’tmost people pronounce it a certain way and are absolutely, positively, sure they’re right. There are so many pronunciations it’s incredible, so who am I to choose theproper” ein? Let ’em pronounce it however they like, I say.

That being said, the number of pronunciations I hear is borderline ridiculous. Here are the most common ones I’ve heard.