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Coding styles of our kids
I have been teaching a bit of C-coding to our kids (K, 10 years and J, 9 years). They have made a couple of small exercise programs and now I looked their coding style to see if it reveals anything about how things are going ( Read more... ) -
Freeciv 25 years, November 14th 2020
Today, November 14th 2015 Freeciv project celebrated its 20th birthday. We had a great interview from the original founders of the project, but given the other news of the day I didn't felt like making big headlines of our celebration, as if it would have been what matters most today ( Read more... ) -
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Software development Jargon of course includes all the stuff related to SW techniques, tools, concepts, but there's probably even more project-specific jargon in any project. Names of the components being implemented, project milestones, abstraction concepts, tasks (yes, there are "jobs" that exist within one project only) etc. all contribute to ( Read more... ) -
E-voting after Sandy
Checking my entry from 6:th of November 2012, I'm surprised to see how mildly I put my opinion about New Jersey establishing e-voting as an emergency measure:
"Maybe it's best of the terrible options, but it sure still is bad."
Well, it was possible that things would work out by luck, so I understand how I were cautious not to predict unavoidable ( Read more... ) -
Evolution - the core idea
If someone says that "Evolution as an idea does not work", is it in any way possible that she or he has any idea what the idea/model of Evolution is? After all I've always succeeded in getting evolution based algorithms to work in development of any software where I've needed them ( Read more... ) -
IPv6 adoption 0.6%
IPv6 adoption now 0.6% according to ARS Article. Well, that's better than nothing, economical recession -> less need for new IP addresses probably eases the problem of running out of IPv4 addresse, and anyway we survive this one way or other (the way might be that there's a lot less Internet-connected devices than would be otherwise, but I think ( Read more... ) -
"the operation completed succesfully" - That sounds bad!
- ...and then it says "the operation completed succesfully." and then ( Read more... ) -
Drawing comics
I had nothing important to think today. So I thought of wheels of comic cars instead. You know, the car speeding so that the wheels turn oval. What I don't get is why they point backward. I assume the idea to be that speed is so high that shape of the car, or at least that of the wheel, changes. Other parts of the wheel are having hard time ( Read more... ) -
Speaking as white male
The man, after checking his papers and computer several times: Yes, I can see your service order and confirmation here, but for some reason it has not been entered to our worklists for tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
"Send me material to blackmail you, I will destroy it without reading"
Dear tech companies. It frustrates me that even when I have some trust in your respect of privacy, your own attempts to convince the public is often based on obviously (for people working on IT security, at least) false statements. Yes, it's much to ask people to trust your good will only, but if there's nothing preventing you from breaching the ( Read more... )