Joost name craze
A lot of people and websites are having fun (or throwing shit) about the name, but the most interesting I’ve read is a poll on Gizmodo:
WTF does “Joost” mean, anyway?
Latin for subservient dinosaur chicken
Foreign pronunciation of “Joost a minute, the video is on its way”
A clever misspelling of “juiced”
Some kinda disguised ethnic slur
Me, [...]
On the meaning of Joost
From an internal mailing list (I’m sure this doesn’t break my NDA):
“ALLEEN JOOST ZAL HET WETEN…………. ”
which is a Dutch proverb, roughly translatable as “the devil may know”, and as such means “I have no idea”
Joost is an old word for the devil :) . Potentially it came from the Javanese ‘joos’ which was [...]
and now it’s Joost!
The Venice Project has a new name and a new website; it’s Joost and it’s already been making the headlines in the few hours since it’s been unveiled. Kudos to PR for the careful planning and execution.
Of course there is a new client build, too—but the changes are small enough that if you have a [...]
AMPL sudoku
I don’t normally indulge in Sudoku, nor do I hold it in a very high esteem; I’m just to short on spare time to appreciate it I guess. Or maybe it’s the mind-numbing boringness of most of the process.
Still, tonight I found myself working on a variant of it. Tomorrow morning I have a university [...]
