Кому в Беларуси жить хорошо? Да никому.
Кровавая история на тему от тюрьмы и от сумы не зарекайся.
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Ещё одна тема для флешмоба
На работе:
$ find ~ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -i -b | sort |uniq -c |sort -nr| head 41880 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23507 text/xml 12471 image/png 8990 text/x-c++; charset=us-ascii 8576 text/x-c; charset=us-ascii 3743 text/html 3064 image/gif 2025 application/octet-stream 1975 application/x-zip 1965 application/java
Пофлешмобим?
~$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
356 cd
309 vim
217 mutt
131 svn
107 ls
99 gem
63 cat
48 screen
45 mysql
39 ssh
Is the Open Domain Question Answering really "open"?
Although the popular description of the Open-Domain QA centers on the fact that the questions are not limited by a specific domain, this is not totally correct unless the term domain is used in the philosophical sense of a sphere of knowledge, influence, or activity, which is listed as 'sense #4' in the Merriam-Webster's dictionnary.
However, the term domain may also have a mathematically sounding meaning of a ...set of elements to which a mathematical or logical variable is limited; specifically : the set on which a function is defined. See 'sense #5' of the same dictionary. In this case, it can be said to be equivalent to the CS term data.
As evaluation conferences like TREC teach us, there is always a fixed amount of input data for a QA system. Which means that every QA system participating in TREC is to be called a closed-domain system if the term domain is used in its 5th sense.
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Empirical proof of the Conway's law has been published
An old software project management axiom, otherwise known as Conway's law stated that any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. Forty years after Melvin Conway formulated it, it has been empirically validated by a team of Harward Business School researchers.
They compared several software products, including open-sourced and closed-sourced ones, and concluded that distributed teams tend to develop more modular products.
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Жёстко они в Microsoft работают, жёстко...
Выдали мне не так давно на работе компьютер dualboot: Windows XP и Ubuntu.
И действительно, оказалось полезно, из Ubuntu я пару раз запускал Windows XP через kvm. В первый раз она просила её активировать. Ну дай думаю активирую -- я ведь раньше этого не делал, может положено так. Через несколько месяцев вдруг понадобилось в Windows XP опять зайти. Сделал ребут, запускаю виндовс -- а она говорит, что надо опять активироваться. Ну ладно думаю. Давай. И тут она отвечает, что количество активаций истекло и через 3 дня она типа самоуничтожится.
Так и остался я у разбитого корыта с одним Ubuntu на машине. Windows теперь запускать страшно, вдруг она не дай бог на меня настучит в местный офис Microsoft.
Service vouchers status quo for 2007
According to ONEM, there's been 53 mln service vouchers sold in Belgium in 2007.
At the price of € 6.70, this makes for € 355.1 mln of expenses for belgian households.
For each service voucher, the state pays € 20 to the serviceing company, which amounts to € 704.9 mln in immediate losses for the state ((20-6.70)*53000000) . The hourly payrate at service vouchers companies is around € 9.50. Which leaves € 10.50 per cheque or € 556.5 mln in total for the serviceing company to cover the overhead of running the business and for profit margins.
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langue, parole ⇒ language, discourse
Everyone and his friends are afraid of calling the langue and parole concepts of Saussure by their English names.
After giving in some thought and trying different translations in the discussions, I came out with language and discourse and the optimal translations. Feel free to criticize.
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IE6 and shaman dances
Tired of trying to fix a bug that resulted in the display of an empty blank area instead of a floating image, I run to the best developer's friend which gave me an answer, no explanation attached.
Now what the heck is the logic behind the bug and, especially, its fix? God knows.
P.S. I bought a beer for the author. This bug pissed me off for a whole month.
The granularity of planning
More on Chaos control.
The most dangerous outcome of the underplanning is employee frustration. Without clear day-to-day targets, employees loose interest in the work. Some become anxious, not willing to take on responsibilities beyond what they consider their assignment.
The danger of the overplanning is that detailed plans are hard to change.
The rigidness of the plan is proportional to the time spent on it, as the only reason not to change plans is often sheer inertia of those that invested already a lot of time to write it up, in the first place.
An ideal planning phase is short and concise, and the planing granularity is barely sufficient to distribute the day-to-day assignments to the employees.
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