skiing
Davos
Last week I went skiing for the first time in my life. I said that I can't live in Switzerland and not go skiing at least once. So I talked with some friends from the church I go to here and we booked rooms at a hotel
Roland Szabo
personal
Survived first Oncall
Yay! With the Lord's help, I have survived my first oncall shift at work. It was quite busy, at times quite stressful, but it has been a good experience to learn to trust in the Lord! The following Bible verse has been very encouraging during
philosophy
What I think of the AI hype
During the last year there have been many articles about the upcoming singularity and what will happen after that. Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking have issued warnings about the impending doom, while others are more optimistic and are hoping that cures for all diseases will be
blog
Comments are back!
After taking way too much time, I finally integrated Isso into my blog. It is developed by the same guy who writes Acrylamid, the blog engine I use, so the integration went very smooth. It uses SQLite for storing the comments and it is hosted on a
reviews
Winter holiday movies
Over the two weeks of winter holidays I finally had some time to watch some movies, some of which were on my to-watch list for quite some time. Two of them were very pleasant surprises: * Coherence - a very light science fiction, but which has a genius twist on a
blog
2014 in review
I know it's January 18th already, but I just got around to writing this post. 2014 has been a good year for my blog. Both the number of readers increased, from 8036 in 2013 to 12451, and the number of pages visits increased, from 70771 to 92938. Growth
linux
My experience with Linux part 6
It's been a long time since I posted anything about what I've done with Linux. After that Gentoo episode, I stuck to Fedora for a while and I didn't have any major issues there, other then a few outdated libraries (like Gnome being 2-3
sale
Saying goodbye to Lenovo
On Wednesday, 24.12.2014, I sold my laptop of three years, a Lenovo T520. Lenovo T520, you were a good laptop, that has served me well, both as a computing tool and as a support for holding up parts of the furniture while I assembled it :D You will
zurich
Strike the iron while it's hot
Last Friday, I went with my team to an offsite to forge knives, in Walchwil. Daniel was an excellent teacher, I would strongly recommend his classes to anyone who wants to do something out of the ordinary. I'll let the video speak how awesome it was. P.S.
reviews
Interstellar
On Saturday I went to see Interstellar. I had heard many opinions about it. Dodo was praising it to heavens. Some colleagues said it was boring and way too long. Other complained about the *spoiler*. Other said it was very good. First let me describe the Swiss
gdcr
Global Day of Code Retreat 2014
I have already been to three Code Retreats in Cluj and I have always enjoyed them. Now I had the chance to go to one in Zurich. This one was just as much fun as the previous ones, maybe even a bit more. One of the biggest differences
politics
An analysis of the biasing in my friendship selection process
On the 2nd of November, in Romania there were the presidential elections. It was the first time for me that I could vote for this, because last time I wasn't 18 years old yet. Maybe I simply didn't pay attention to this before,