designing software for people who do not use computers
May 6th, 2008
My recent affair with usability brought me to analyze a somewhat subtle aspect of software, especially the user interface design aspect.
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will open-source eventually run programmers in the ground?
May 4th, 2008
Recently, I have come across blog posts where authors and commenters alike were considering that the whole open-source fad is going to cost a lot of programmers a lot of money and quite possibly make it very hard to earn a living by writing code.
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the way it is
April 8th, 2008
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
As children, all of us passed through a “why?” stage. In the brain’s pursuit of adjusting to the world, our parents were bombarded with inquiries into the most mundane of things, so that we would learn and understand. They might have hated our incessant questioning, but we grew, listening intensely to their answers, and the world started to make sense.
would modularized windows really suck?
April 6th, 2008
Ars is running a lengthy piece on modularized Windows and why it would suck. There are quite a few reasons why I do not believe this to be true, mostly looking at the increased control modularized Windows would bring to all categories of users.
subtler ways to enslave
March 14th, 2008
‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You’re a slave to money then you die
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
on the value of a mind
March 12th, 2008
Anya is considering, today, the matter of fairness. The fairness of incomes where they are not based in the education required to get to a certain position, but some other, should-be-unimportant factors. And, I would venture a guess, the fairness with which our respect hierarchies are built.
jobs, morals and geekery
February 20th, 2008
Geeks tend to get very opinionated on various issues. That’s the reason why many geeks have blogs or engage in various fora - to express and discuss said opinions. And there may come a time in the life of your average-variety geek when he or she must sit and ponder on a very real and not quite simple-cut issue:
Where is the balance between my job and my morals/beliefs?
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the web, take 3
February 19th, 2008
People throw around a whole bunch of buzzwords regarding the impending web 3.0. It’s always fun to speculate, isn’t it? In my limited experience of web things1 I came up with my own speculation.
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- I am not against web 2 though I never got into the big social networks like Facebook or MySpace. Some say blogging is web 2 as well, and I’ve been doing this since before we had a buzzword for it [↩]
how pushing ISPs will backfire
February 19th, 2008
Considering that recent1 news keep hinting at how the MAFIAA and company want to push responsibility for file sharing onto ISPs, let’s muse over a few possible outcomes.
- Well, they were far more recent when I drafted this entry [↩]
these are your guardians, america
February 13th, 2008
brought to my attention by a very special someone:
Florida Police Officers Dump Man from Wheelchair
Woman Strip-Searched and Jailed Naked over a Misunderstanding
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