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November 5, 2008

On Elections

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November 13, 2008

On Wet Ideas

A wet idea is when an information scientist demands to save the id of every user who alters data in a database. But where's the sense in this? If I know that any UPDATE or DELETE statement is tagged with my ID (btw: delete isn't possible any longer with this idea), of course I take another one's ID!
Seems that the core of this suggestions has to do with general ideas of surveillance. No wonder this suggestion is from England, where even the craziest paranoid stuff finds a platform. (Source)

On False Positives

That's the problem I have with those Ruby apologists: they publish a study and if you read the fineprint it's nothing but propaganda. Add some snooty numbers and side blows against established programming languages and you have a good image of the Ruby scene. I was always on the edge with Python developers claiming they have so much more fun than Perl coders, but this Ruby thing is just annoying. (Source)

On Women in IT

Whoever needs answers for the why-don't-women-chose-jobs-in-IT question, may have a look at this study. Women forgo having children, postpone marriage or even remain single to focus on their careers, much more often than their male colleagues. But these significant personal sacrifices won't benefit women, as their overall job chances remain relatively low and keep them on stereotype, low-visibility tasks. (Source)

November 18, 2008

On the Internet

to: Admin - If You want to delete your site from my spam list, please sent url of your domain to my emai: stop.spam.today@gmail.com And I will remove your site from my base within 24 hours webmastegz

Why not ask for money too?

On Boot Time

When Garry Small, professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles says: "Our brains have become impatient with the boot-up process. We have been spoiled by the hand-held devices." I can't but think of computer systems from the 1980s where the whole O/S was built in ROMs or EPROMs and the desktop (or the shell or whatever) came up in a few seconds, or even a fraction of a second. Long ago, this. (Source)