It Does Exist!

During a trip to Porto’s Ceija I was able to confirm that one of the professorial caste’s most cherished yet elusive objects does exist: The conceptual machine.

In this case, it is a 3D metal printer, and it printed this piece of hardware (and many others); this one took about 12h to finish.

Re: Your unsolicited email / our joint problem

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Dear PR professional:

With respect to our joint problem, Stanford researchers have found a solution!

Please see here for the answer: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

With kind regards,

Dirk Riehle

PS: If the research paper above doesn’t load, please see this copy: remove.pdf

The Reviews Are in And It Ain’t Pretty

From the first review: Best application of grounded theory that I have seen in a long time!

From the second review: I have seen grounded theory; this ain’t it.

From the third review: What is grounded theory?

Conclusion: No more grounded theory.

PS: Those reviews are a synthesis of prior experiences.

Non Sequitur #DesignPatternsHumor

A colleague earlier today showed me this student answer from one of his exams:

The student answer for “name a design pattern” is “hotel” and the answer for “that pattern’s intent” is “book hotel”. Repeat for a second pattern called “flight” and its intent “book flight”.