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After downloading the firmware update I was finally able to fly...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:15:00 +0200

After downloading the firmware update I was finally able to fly the AR-Drone for the first time in our office: Without watching the tutorials first. :)

This made the whole operation even more exciting. The video was shot with an iPhone and edited by Sebastian Müller, one of my fellow hackers. Thank you!

10-15 cm of snow in Hamburg…again.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:27:00 +0100

10-15 cm of snow in Hamburg…again.

My first #WOD in 2010

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:18:27 +0100

Warmup

Rowing, Squats, Pushups, Situps, Pullups

Skill

Squat Cleans

Squat Snatches

WOD

7 rounds for time:

7 Squad Cleans
7 GHD Situps
7 Box-Jumps

After-WOD

Ring Dips 5-5-5-5-5

freiheit.com Christmas Party 2009

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:49:00 +0100

freiheit.com Christmas Party 2009

"If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This..."

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:18:00 +0100

“If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.”

- Alan Kay

"In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:21:00 +0100

“In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementations of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit.”

- Brad Fitzpatrick (taken from “Coders at work”)

Prof. Uli Hoffmann gave a HackerTalk at freiheit.com and...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:17:00 +0100

Prof. Uli Hoffmann gave a HackerTalk at freiheit.com and introduced us to the programming language FORTH, which is completely stack-based: Push something onto the stack and call a function (a Forth word). FORTH has not so many open-source libraries. This is cool, so you have to write your own stuff and you known that everything works fine. :)

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are..."

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:04:35 +0200

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”

- C.A.R. Hoare

Low-Temperature Cooking: The Perfect Steak This is a photo...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:04:00 +0200

Low-Temperature Cooking: The Perfect Steak

This is a photo documentation of one of my low-temperature cooking experiments based on a recipe from Heston Blumenthals book “In Search of Perfection”. Basically you put a well-aged two-bone forerib of beef about 30 hours at exactly 50 degrees celsius into an oven. But first you need to brown the outside as quickly as possible using a blowtorch to create the maillard reaction. At the lower temperature muscle proteins contract and squeeze out water far more slowly. In addition to that, the beef is tenderised by enzymes that weaken or break-down collagen and other proteins. The result is the tenderest, tastiest meat imaginable.

Sebastian, preparing his fantastic Richmond Gimlets. We had a...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Sebastian, preparing his fantastic Richmond Gimlets. We had a BBQ with a group of customers after a long project phase. Sebastian is not only an experienced computer programmer, but he also knows how to “hack” Food and Drinks. :)

European Common Lisp Meeting 2009

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

European Common Lisp Meeting 2009

Lisp Hackers: Edi Weitz and Jeremy Jones on a boat trip in...

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Lisp Hackers: Edi Weitz and Jeremy Jones on a boat trip in Hamburg, the evening before the excellent European Common Lisp Meeting 2009.

Glass of Wine. It was almost dark when I shot this with a Leica...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Glass of Wine. It was almost dark when I shot this with a Leica M9 and a Noctilux. The M9 has much less noise on higher ISO setting. This is ISO 500 and f0.95.

"An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader."

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:37:00 +0200

“An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.”

- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1

Me after “Helen”. We stayed 10 days in L.A. and...

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Me after “Helen”. We stayed 10 days in L.A. and every morning we worked-out at Crossfit-LA. Nice people. Nice place.

Crossfit L.A.

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Crossfit L.A.