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Category Archives: Life (the real one)

I like to learn new things. I also like to understand complex concepts. Here is one topic that I know I’ll never understand fully. Hence my interest to it !

High availability for humans

I noticed a new link in my GMail account (I am using gmail for your domain), showing the sessions used to connect to an account and the last time since it had activity on that session.
Pretty neat, although I doubt a regular user will be able to make sense of any of that… In my [...]

Gathering entropy from children

Here is a trick I found that solved an old problem: How can coin flipping ever be fair if only one person chooses head or tail ?
I remember Chrissy complaining about that to Jack in an episode of “Three’s Company”. Above the humour, I remember thinking about fair coin flipping back then, many years before [...]

My name is Guillaume, and I want to be a hacker

I was reading the FAQ on how to be a hacker, from Eric Raymond. I recognized in me many of the hacker traits - maybe even some of the skills. But I use a handle, ixe013.
One thing for sure, I love to solve problems and build things. When I started this web site, I pondered [...]