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Category Archives: Geeky Musings
How to run an opensource project.
Step 1: Create a direct financial incentive to produce a buggy, security-hole-ridden, backwards but oh-so-shiny piece of poop. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.
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DadHacker should be a book, frankly
A great blog. I’ve been re-reading it from beginning to end. This sentence seemed particularly appropriate, given the current sturm und drang about “NoSQL” databases: Databases make lousy file systems. File systems make lousy databases. There is a circle in … Continue reading
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Musos and Masters
This essay by Zed Shaw resurfaced on Proggit today. Shaw’s essay talks about mastery, as seen from the perspective of martial arts: After reading books on martial arts history for years, and studying everything I can, I started to see … Continue reading
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A stray thought about exam questions
Having just finished the final units I need to qualify for an undergraduate degree, the topic of examinations is still fresh in my mind. Generally these fall into two categories: open-book and closed-book; with two major categories of question: multiple-choice and short-answer.
The exact mix of open/closed and MC/SA will vary from professor to professor and […] Continue reading
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Supercomputing Treaties
Today’s random thought: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was the most important development in the history of supercomputing. It has forced the continuous development of ever-more powerful supercomputers to simulate the decay of weapons that can no longer be actually tested. … Continue reading
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I’ve also found this to be true
Based on current feedback, I’d say paying a lawyer to talk about software patents at this point would be like setting money on fire.
– Ryan Gordon
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A small taste of development life
Jon Skeet explains that human complexity is one of the causes of software complexity. Everything you might think is simple — numbers, letters and dates — is actually devilishly tricky. Continue reading
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Upsetting the natural order
A lot of progress (and sometimes, regress) in computer science and software engineering seems to come from rejecting, modifying or otherwise modifying the “natural order”. By natural order I refer to the generally accepted, industrial paradigm of how development “is … Continue reading
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Decisions, decisions …
I am, at long last, within a cooee of actually having an undergraduate degree. The road to this point has been much longer than I expected back when I graduated from high school in 1999. The intervention of depression in … Continue reading
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