How much education do computing innovators usually have?
Today brings us this tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Getting straight "A"s does not guarantee success, but plenty of e…
Showing posts with label computing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computing. Show all posts
Desktop environments: get out of my way
Increasingly the applications you use — yes, you , sitting there, not some rhetorical "you" — can be broken into two ca…
On the changing nature of software ownership; with a digression on horniness and the troubling interdependence of human beings
Sometime in the late 1990's, I realized that "ownership" of software had become meaningless. Well, OK, I didn't…
Why are so many IT workers climate change denialists?
Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems that climate change denialism is even more common among programmer and sysadmin …
Review: Dell Mini 12 with Ubuntu
A few months ago, my old Thinkpad T42 died after 4 years of faithful service. I realized that I usually buy a $2000 laptop every…
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