That's a good point about giving kids an 'alternate' name. Novel names can be interesting to parents, but the kids themselves might not appreciate that novelty while growing up.

An ordinary...

Years ago I dealt with a vendor, a small machine shop run by a husband/wife team. He was French, and his name was Jean, she was the American Jean. When...

Here a lost card is quickly replaceable at HR (I think they charge a few bucks as a deterrent but not sure how much). You can get in at the...

The certs and tests that rely on details (syntax etc) really miss the point. Such tests reward blind memorization and don't look for understanding.

Ideally a qualified applicant has a more...

Kind of a mixed situation. Probably helpful for in house applications.

For published apps, though, it can be a support nightmare. People are concerned about Android's fragmentation, but with each custiomer...

I would bet that at this moment, some people are honeypotting the NSA to see what tools/approaches they are using

lshanahan (8/26/2013)

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In a bookstore one day I picked up a book called "No-Tech Hacking". I sat there and read nearly the whole thing. Certainly an eye-opener regarding physical...

amisrahi (8/19/2013)

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Yeah that was an amusing one but the important part missed is that this is not a story of creeping invasion of privacy but of creeping invasion of privacy...

Big data is a dangerous part of this equation. Even when data appears to be anonymized, bringing multiple sources together can defeat that.

In a recent issue of Technology Review there...

SQLRNNR (7/26/2013)

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I really do think google would be easier if I could do this:

select * from closeby_restaurants where cuisine = 'chinese' and distance_from_home <= 2 miles and deliciousness = 'awesome'...

the Backup/Replication actions sound just like what a lot of people do on Facebook.

On a completely side point, the person who posted the photograph appeared not fully understand the function of that lock structure. The extra locks are not to make it tougher...

My sense, from reading his article, is that the difference between the senior and the competent levels has much less to do with technical knowledge and much more to do...

I disagree with the 'everyone needs to learn to program' theory as was mentioned before in the 'everyone needs to know how to fix a car' example.

It would be...

Miles Neale (7/9/2013)

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Fo...

It no longer is an issue of me not doing anything wrong and having nothing to hide. The issue is I want others to know only those...