Enter the Soroban
Posted by Steve Quinlan on January 28 2009 @ 09:59
I just received a gift of a Soroban. It's an Abacus, developed in Japan.
So what's so special about it? Take a look at this video:
Astounding, no? (Unless you were greeted with a dead link, in which case I apologise!). This technology is n ot new. According to "The Google", it can be traced back to the 1600s.
So this brings me to the topic of software development, which is what we do at Kablingy. What else are we doing in our day to day job that we could be doing 10 times faster? More effective testing? Spotting patterns earlier? Batch refactoring performed in the mind? A direct mind-to-twitter implant? I don't know the answer.
In the meantime, I'll be practicing my Soroban addition in between Selenium test runs (we use Selenium extensively here for testing our software).
Happy counting.