Krister Viirsaar

In a perfect world no grading would be needed. Or as a compromise an automatic grading system with machine learning would be awesome. In this day and age (read: little time and no extra salary) however my students are going to get an assignment

Well there it is. I've quit teaching at the University. Which doesn't mean I'm done teaching. Next up - primary schools. No, I don't expect it to be easier, I expect it to be harder. BUT there's a couple of changes. Default grade The

Reading many "how the rich think" kind of books I've concluded that becoming wealthy is not about the next big startup, but rather handling your money wisely. When we think of the rich we immediately jump to the richest people in the

I get annoyed when there's a discussion and it's clearly just people talking about different things. The annoying part comes in when there's me acknowledging it, but unable to understand what it is we're misunderstanding about each others vocabulary. Or when we're working on

Notice: "Text Editor" means text, not code. So I was writing a blog for Rangeforce and was looking for a markdown editor. From the depths of Arch Linuxes application repository came Abricotine (the name is the only thing I don't like). As

I've been doing this for about a month now. Not every day, like I had aimed, but every other day, which is also fine. There were many goals: Fun - writing is just fun. Profit - testing out keywords to get markdownsites.com traffic.

Sometimes at work I feel like there's something I'm missing. Something that I'm not doing that the company drastically needs. I work in a startup for the crazy inventiveness and fast iterations. And we are fast, it's quite a sight. But there is no

Even though I just quit teaching at the University I'm not actually done teaching. I used to think university is different (and it probably is in some places), that students would have their inner drive to study and I would make an effective course

I'm a lazy person. If there is no urgency, thing will just be left undone. But I love doing stuff if I ever get round to them. My want-to-do list is huge. I got so dissatisfied with the wasteful lifestyle that in the new

Any enterprise background product developer is bound to get exited when they hear about the concept of the minimal viable product for the first time. It can cut the waterfallish 3 months of development to a few week iterations. But what is the smallest

It used to be easy, back when Geocities was a thing. No code, no payment, just a cool little website. Why isn't it a thing anymore? Because websites have evolved. You need design and functionality for a basic site that wasn't even a possibility

The last post revealed practical reasons. This post will be about personal reasons. The students just presented their semester projects. They had to present their work in front of an audience and their grade was assigned on the spot. There were quite many really

Why I watch a lot of YouTube. I'm kind of a TED, VICE, Veritasium kind of person - I like to learn. To my amazement Casey Neistat became a total must see every day (when he was still regularly vlogging). I didn't even know

I'm from a country that is being run like a startup. There's the e-residency program (kind of like Stripe Atlas, but from years ago and with full jurisdiction), we vote online and do everything from taxes to buying a bus ticket online. Seriously advanced

There are loads of online resources to learn programming, but they are all still very.. well, dumb. What I mean is there are fixed paths to learning it, but human brains are not fixed - each one is unique. Each one has it's own