A few days ago I wrote a comment on Hacker News. Here it goes. I hate how being harsh has become fashionable. Whatever happened to manners? This spontaneous reaction was in response to a blog that attempted to be humorous by using the word “fucking” multiple times in reference to Adobe’s UIs which were
Continue ReadingA little over a week ago IBM released a new version of the DB2 beta for Mac OS X Leopard, following up on valuable feedback that we’d received in response to earlier versions. This version is important because it resolves a reported issue that was occurring when building drivers for languages like Ruby and
Continue ReadingReading Jeff Atwood’s post The Problem of the Unfinished Game, reminded me of a similar problem. The Monty Hall Problem is a well known probability puzzle that has tricked many people. In fact, if you are not familiar with it already, chances are that you’ll get it wrong. And you would be in good
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