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A routine update from Symantec Security Response wreaked havoc on a California company's clientele this week when it inadvertently tagged a program produced by Solid Oak Software as a virus and cut off the Internet access of Solid Oak customers.
posted 10 months ago in humor, security, software10 views | 1 jaa | reply )
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“Dollars and cents seem real and physical enough for many people. If processes affecting money flows do not qualify as producing a physical transformation, it seems impossible to imagine that a process would qualify where it only scores virtual documents more...
posted 2 months ago in law, programming8 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”.”
posted 2 months ago in social8 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.”
posted 5 months ago in design, usability21 views | 7 jaas | 1 tag | 3 saves | reply )
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“Software is like nothing else in the history of human endeavor unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out.”
posted 3 months ago in economics, programming21 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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Developers working on Web Software supporting multiple users or profiles can use CookiePie to simultaneously test their software with each user without needing to open a different browser.
posted 8 months ago in software, web, development27 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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Every programmer with a few years' experience or education has heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil." This famous quote by Sir Tony Hoare (popularized by Donald Knuth) has become a best practice among software engineers.
posted 3 months ago in programming10 views | 3 jaas | 2 saves | reply )
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Eating your own dog food is the quaint name that we in the computer industry give to the process of actually using your own product.
posted 7 months ago in business, jaanix, management15 views | 5 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at more...
posted 10 months ago in java, php, programming, python, ruby, software32 views | 6 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“Write a Named Point class with three members: two floating point values for the coordinates on an X-Y plane, and a name represented as a 'char *'.” -- what could go wrong?
posted 4 months ago in programming, software, c++, bugs21 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides more...
posted 10 months ago in design, software, web27 views | 16 jaas | 3 saves | reply )
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So the question “how can I repay a loan with interest; where does the extra money come from?” becomes “how can someone give back more wealth than they were loaned; where does the extra wealth come from?”.
posted 8 months ago in software, finance, social, currency, money14 views | 1 jaa | reply )
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Homo logicus are driven by an irresistible desire to understand how things work. By contrast, Homo sapiens have a strong desire for success.
posted 7 months ago in design, programming, psychology28 views | 6 jaas | 2 saves | reply )
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So let's be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software.
posted 8 months ago in hardware, mac, opensource, software13 views | 2 jaas | reply )
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This is roughly like looking at Bach’s DNA and hearing the Little Fugue in your head.
posted 6 months ago in programming22 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )

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