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Comment on When you speak or write, do you own the words that you have created? by Laszlo

Laszlo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:02:29 +0000

I’m just finishing the “Complete Robot” from Asimov and after it I’ll continue with somebody else. Lem is a good idea, I haven’t read him for ~15 years I’ll check out amazon soon

Comment on Hungarians’ role in data storage evolution by Machelle Covey

Machelle Covey — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:19:04 +0000

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Comment on Liability or reality? by Se Blog

Se Blog — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:54:31 +0000

Good and Interest information thx

Comment on Liability or reality? by Aardvark Engineering

Aardvark Engineering — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:48:13 +0000

Systems are built by humans so by there very nature are flawed until they have been used, proven, tested and evolved such that the process produces the same predictable results every time.

Things get worse when systems run on other systems made by humans such as software running on hardware, as the problems get compounded.

Emotion though is always the breaking point when using and testing systems that don’t perform as we expect. Instead we need to remain clear headed and objective, but then we wouldn’t be human…..

Comment on When you speak or write, do you own the words that you have created? by Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:14:05 +0000

I also recently read.
Begins with the artificial signal is detected from universe. (Sci-Fi novel by the dozens…) Although scientists worked on interpretation and produced many strange solutions and wild explanations, but…
I’m no telling more. Read it! )

This book realized for me suddenly, that meaning and context has crucial importance and has inseparability feature.

Two more my favourites from Lem:
- Fiasco (Fiaskó)
- Summa Technologiae (ua.)

Comment on Liability or reality? by Sumeet Grover

Sumeet Grover — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:56:18 +0000

You are right, we can’t make error free programs. It is not an excuse for lazy coding, but even software testing is based on the premise that we can show the presence, not absense of errors.

We can use mathematical notations like ‘Z’ to search the execution space of an algorithm and rule out errors, but as you rightly pointed out, software programs don’t execute in isolation.

There are different factors and parameters, like OS, Compiler, binary code, main memory etc that affect what it does.

Linux is flawless when we compare it to windows, but I remember having brought it to a halt on a University network when I forgot to de-allocate memory after an accidental while loop was allocating it again and again. Learning – Yes, Linux itself is still flawless but other factors e.g. poorly written code and screw it up.

Food for thought!

Cheers.

Comment on Windows 7 setup failed by Laszlo

Laszlo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:18:31 +0000

Thank you for letting me know! I’m happy that I helped you to solve it.

Comment on Windows 7 setup failed by Usan

Usan — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:05:21 +0000

I know this is an old entry, but I just wanted to say that it helped me with my install troubles. It was exactly this. Thanks!

Comment on Different ways of thinking by Laszlo

Laszlo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:38:34 +0000

I guess, since it is not a subject of all Msc courses in Hungary, I participated in the same -or very similar – course I just didn’t finished that one. You’re right, everything can be transformed to an iterative version. I was thinking on including it in my work, but we have must fit into the 350-500 word limit, so I decided to leave it out.

Comment on Different ways of thinking by Baku

Baku — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:40:55 +0000

I was learned from my master, that recursivelly thought first, then transform it into an iterativelly solution. I had hard lesson to change from thinking iterativelly to thinking recursivelly.
(Base programmer thesis: everything recursion transformable to iteration…)