Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Donate for Azie
I’m normally not much for donating money to charities, because usually those charities are only aiding in the further destruction of the human race by trying to cheat on mother nature. But I’m making an exception for the victims of the earthquake in Azie. All you dutch people, please consider donating to Giro 555.
No EU software patents for now
GrokLaw announces, in this article the following: “In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today’s meeting. […] Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a “constructive declaration”. The meeting chairman accomodated […]
On statistics…
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde “First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.” — Mark Twain “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Benjamin Disraeli “Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an […]
Laws of developers documentation
During my programming years, I’ve noticed that Developers documentation adhears to a couple of laws: If you write documentation, they don’t read it. If you don’t write documentation, they complain about it. If you update documentation regularly, they don’t. If you don’t update documentation, they complain about it. If you read other people’s documentation and […]
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