http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog Weblog by Oliver Kaljuvee about software, technology, finance, and life. Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:16:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pretty much the story my life... http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2010/07/02/java-4-ever/ Four doctors went duck hunting together: a family practitioner, a gynecologist, a surgeon, and a pathologist. As a bird flew overhead, the family practitioner started tho shoot but decided not to because he wasn't absolutely sure it was a duck. The gynecologist also prepared to shoot, but lowered ... http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2010/01/16/medical-ethics-by-specialty/ Even lawyers have ethics. If a client mistakenly gives a lawyer $400 to pay a $300 bill, the ethical question that naturally arises is whether the lawyer should tell his partner. http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2010/01/16/lawyer-ethics-via-humor/ This is very appropriate given the times and given the fact that I too once worked for Lehman Brothers: http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/12/27/motivation-through-fear/ The ninety-year-old man went to the doctor and said, "Doctor, my eighteen-year-old wife is expecting a baby." The doctor said, "Well, let me tell you a story. A man went hunting, but instead of a gun, he picked up an umbrella by mistake. When a bear suddenly ... http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/09/23/the-argument-from-analogy/ There is a town in which the only barber, a man, shaves all the townsmen who do not shave themselves. Does the barber shave himself? If he does, he doesn't. If he doesn't, he does. Makes sense? http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/09/23/semantic-paradox/ Looking for efficient ways of loading files that run in the GB realm, in Java? I recently played around with Java's NIO API, which was introduced in JDK 1.4. As you may know, the traditional IO classes deal with streams, whereas the NIO API deals with block-oriented approach, which makes ... http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/03/12/ma-look-no-streams/ Two cows are standing in the pasture. After a while, one turns to the other and says, "Do you realize that although pi is usually abbreviated to four decimal places, it actually goes to infinity?" And the other cow replies, "Moo." http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/02/12/infinite-humor/ When debating the beginning of the universe, many often hide behind the infamous infinite regress idea. In other words, in order to explain the existence of the world by positing a "maker" raises the question of how to explain the existence of the maker. If another maker is posited, ... http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/01/24/infinite-regress/ The anecdote is motivated by Leibniz's ideas--he was neither an optimist nor a pessimist, but merely a neutral rationalist. Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Rationalist: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. http://oliver.kaljuvee.info/blog/index.php/2009/01/24/rational-humor/