I read an article today on things some guy things we should not do in C#. It’s title is designed to evoke response, much like Knuth’s paper Structured Programming with go to Statements. The similarity stops there, though, because the post seems to assume that everyone reading it is a bumbling idiot. The first two [...]
So, I was dinking around in Google Reader yesterday and reading my Daily WTF, when I came across this wonderful post. Of course, upon seeing the code listed in that post, I nearly excremented bricks, the code listed there being obviously stupid (I would so fire anyone that used 14 levels of nested if statements [...]
Roy Schestowitz often posts two kinds of links: highly underrated, and highly overrated. However, he posted an article a few hours ago that has me wondering if he actually reads some of the things that he posts. The article, Another Reason to avoid Mono: Security, is entirely misleading. The problem is actually within Windows Vista. [...]
Reading the comments on Slashdot regarding Scrabulous and Hasbro’s idiocy, I find a lot of things funny: Scrabble sees Scrabulous as a Risk to their Monopoly. That could lead to Trouble. Sorry! So they could be taking a huge Risk? People on Slashdot need to get a Life. Get a Clue… that’s Life. You people [...]
Slashdot | Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity Yup, I did. It was Little Brother. Haven’t read it yet? Go, read it, I’m not kidding.
An article over at “Works With U” has an interesting thing that I have run into a few times before: And here’s another ironic twist: Consumers may actually prefer to pay for Ubuntu — rather than get it for free. No joke: Many consumers don’t like free software. They fear it. My brother in law [...]
I was going to post this last night, but I wanted some time to think about what I’d just finished reading before I decided to write about it here. Yesterday, I read Little Brother. It was an awesome, amazing read. It is also the only book that I have ever read entirely on my computer [...]
So, Reiser has pointed the police to the body of Nina Reiser (link via Slashdot). The body has been exhumed, and they’re going to be confirming the identity of the body soon, I should expect. The action came as a result between Reiser and the DA reaching an agreement that essentially said “the body for [...]
It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]
I don’t really like fundies that much, no matter where they come from. The thing with fundies is that they often put out FUD, which serves only to confuse people. First, the article doesn’t mention Midnight Commander or GNOME. Both were written and influenced by Miguel de Icaza, and both are excellent—beautiful, even—pieces of software. [...]
