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Hackers in the Media – Autovoting Polls etc

One little thing that REALLY bugs me, is the medias cluelessness about anything computer related at all. Often referring to ‘Hackers’ without a second thought at all. A few months back a man was harassing another person on trademe, was blocked, and created another trademe account to harass them further. The media titled the article [...]

Posted 03 November 2009 § Rant § Tech ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

The Relationship between Beards and Sucessful Programming Languages

http://maple-news.com/2008/05/25/the-relation-between-beards-and-the-succes-of-programming-languages/ Lets see how successful are a few programming languages. The F# Language. This is its creator, Don Syme. He doesn’t have a beard, which means his Programming language won’t be a big success. Next- Prolog. Look at Alain Colmerauer’s face. No beard – no success! Now, C. Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie [...]

Posted 26 March 2009 § Diary § Humour § Tech ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,