My experience with document interchange led me to classify document formats using the essential distinction that some are "programmable" and some are not. [..]
The reason that this distinction is essential with respect to document interchange is that extracting information from documents in "programmable" document formats is equivalent to the halting problem. That is, it is arbitrarily difficult and cannot be automated in a general fashion.
For example, I conjecture that it is impossible to write a program that will extract the third word from a TeX document.
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language. If you write it in a simple declarative from, anyone can write a program to analyze it in many ways. The Semantic Web is an attempt, largely, to map large quantities of existing data onto a common language so that the data can be analyzed in ways never dreamed of by its creators.
"Unsere intuitive Moral - selbsttäuschend, nepotistisch, sippenbetont, anthropozentrisch und an Strafen orientiert - lässt sich nicht mit irgendeiner konsistenten Menge moralischer Werte in Einklang bringen, seien diese nun aristotelisch, kantianisch oder utilaristisch." - Geoffrey Miller, Das Kontinuum von Persönlichkeit und Wahnsinn, S.315
"I’m not a moralist. I’m a pragmatist operating at a level of long-term vision and ruthlessness that is difficult for most people to wrap their minds around (and perhaps impossible for you). I don’t give a shit about “right thought” as long as I can elicit the behaviors I want, and I believe “right thought” usually follows changes in behavior as a rationalization rather than causally preceding them." - Eric S. Raymond, comment to own article
Von der Leyens Zusatzrenten-Modell helfe nicht als Mittel gegen Altersarmut, sagt Sozialforscher Butterwegge gegenüber tagesschau.de: "Das ist reine Augenwischerei." Nur eine ganz kleine Gruppe Menschen würde damit überhaupt erreicht werden. Und mit Demografie habe das Rentenproblem gar nichts zu tun.
There a 4 generations working side by side right now. That has never happened before at any time in human history. None of them are stepping aside for the current generation.
Cargo cult software engineering is easy to identify. Cargo cult software engineers justify their practices by saying, "We’ve always done it this way in the past," or "our company standards require us to do it this way"—even when those ways make no sense.
I've seen a race of electronically linked humanoids who share information in a vast decentralized net to which they all have access; who see data as a kind of neutral atmosphere, like air; who use technology to share thoughts and impressions at all times; who are never out of contact with one another; and who react to the briefest removal from their shared consciousness with an itchy, frantic eagerness (cf. "Hugh") to get back.
I'm trying to amass a list of programming books that are freely available on the Internet. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.
What are some freely available programming books on the Internet?
The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is an error that occurs when the conditional probability of some hypothesis H given some evidence E is assessed without taking into account the prior probability ("base rate") of H and the total probability of evidence E.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
At an increasing number of companies, the hiring boss for rank and file jobs is now an algorithm -- and the computers are considering factors that are very different than what applicants have come to expect.
In 1914, a business executive named Henry Ford did a startling thing:
He announced that he was going to more than double the wages he was paying his employees, from $2.34 to $5 a day--the equivalent of $120 a day in today's money.
The country was as shocked by this then as it would be today.
The patent system is in crisis, and it endangers the future of software development in the United States. Let's create a system that defends innovation, instead of hindering it.
``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
The current trend in productivity books, personal coaches and bloggers [...] is to stuff more and more things into each idle hour, until you are working all waking day. But you don’t need to move really far to find some other kind of advice: In a book published in 1910, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett already suggested that you need to claim several hours a week for improving yourself.
The Law of Incorrect Tweets:
Initial, inaccurate information will be retweeted more than any subsequent correction.
If you understand the dynamic, you may be more likely to change it. One cause: Incorrect information is bound to be more provocative and interesting than a correction. The other cause is that too little attention is paid to making corrections on Twitter.
Critics of a Newsweek cover story by historian Niall Ferguson say the piece should never have been published because of the errors and flawed logic it contains. But isn’t it better if those kinds of mistakes are corrected in public view instead of behind closed doors?
I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.
The current World Wide Web consists almost entirely of pages that are either stories or tools. A few ambitious sites combine these two types of pages in varying ratios, with results that range from unsatisfying to disastrous.
Gegen die 68-er ist schwer anzukommen .
Diese Generation hat die größten Opportunisten und Egoisten hervorgebrach,hocken alle an den fetten Fleischtopfen,sind mit allen Ideologischen Wassern gewaschen.
"Man darf den Einfluss von bestimmten Unternehmen der Unterhaltungsindustrie nicht unterschätzen, und man muss außerdem wissen, dass es damals innerhalb der Gema "mafiöse" Strukturen gab, die die Gema noch bis heute beherrschen."
The following tables summarize the standard Microsoft Windows shortcut key assignments.
The following shortcuts can be used by any program, but they must have the given meaning
Keine Firma verkauft so erfolgreich Versicherungen, Bausparverträge und andere Geldanlagen wie die Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG. Ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter packt jetzt aus - über die miesen Methoden der Drücker und die Finessen einer der umstrittensten deutschen Firmen.
Mit der Veröffentlichung eines Werkes, steht dieses nicht mehr allein seinem Inhaber zur Verfügung. Vielmehr tritt es bestimmungsgemäß in den gesellschaftlichen Raum und kann damit zu einem eigenständigen, das kulturelle und geistige Bild der Zeit mitbestimmenden Faktor werden.
A. Leitner, M. Oriol, A. Zeller, I. Ciupa, and B. Meyer. Proceedings of the Twenty-second IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, page 417--420. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
A. Lancichinetti, and S. Fortunato. (2009)cite arxiv:0908.1062Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures. The software to compute the values of our general normalized mutual information is available at http://santo.fortunato.googlepages.com/inthepress2.