Computer Science and it’s Ethics or Lack Thereof
Recently, I had a class project in which I had to track down a code of ethics for my career field, computer science. In the course of this research, something astonished me. First, that it was pretty...
View Article52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight
How long does it take for a new visitor/customer to be delighted using your product or service? via 52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight. Probably the most important and hardest metric. The most important...
View ArticleProgrammers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
I’m going to ask what is probably quite a controversial question: “Should one of the most popular encodings, UTF-16, be considered harmful?” via Programmers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered...
View ArticleTim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie. I’ve been living in a world he helped invent for over thirty years. via Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie....
View ArticleTechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died last night. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the first...
View ArticleAmazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
The list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers came out yesterday with a top 10 that was unchanged from the previous ranking issued in June. But further down the list, a familiar name is making a...
View ArticleDataGenetics – The Two Egg Problem
You are given two eggs, and access to a 100-storey building. Both eggs are identical. The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that...
View ArticleThe Clean Architecture
Conforming to these simple rules is not hard, and will save you a lot of headaches going forward. By separating the software into layers, and conforming to The Dependency Rule, you will create a system...
View ArticleThe Last Line Effect
So what we get is the following pattern: The probability of making a mistake in the last pasted block of code is 4 times higher than in any other block. Neat bit of research from Intel here and it...
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