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Finally, a text that captures really well how programming works for me. Programming is far more an aesthetic and creative process than a purely technical one - many aspects of programming involve artistic activity for me rather than technical implementation. The deeper I get into a program and enter "hack mode," the further I move away from classical software engineering teachings - there's no design and analysis there, but there is a lot of intuition at work.

Anyone who reduces programming to the purely technical aspect and thinks you can plan and analyze everything beforehand, preferably before you even sit down at the computer, excludes an essential part of programming: namely, the dialogue with the machine, with the problem.

Programming languages are a means of communication, so we should learn to communicate with these languages. Not pidgin and machine translation!

I found the original article at Tao of the Machine.

Schleswig-Holstein scraps controversial allowance increase

First signs of intelligence? Can't be...

At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.

Schröder: Times of abundance are over ...

... said the man in the Armani suit.

At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.

Berlusconi accuses judges of 'coup attempt'

Ok, politician madness has also broken out abroad. Ok, it had already broken out earlier with Berlusconi, but he hadn't shown it so openly before. Or had he?

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Linux: No Chance for Buffer Overflows

It was about time too. Because the best approach is still in the OS itself, not in relying on better application developers. Unfortunately.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Special Party Congress on PDS Leadership Crisis

How can there be a leadership crisis in a party without leadership? I mean, the PDS basically just consists of either deserters and professional duckers, or hectic running around because of the latest wave of deserters and professional duckers. The central strategy of PDS leadership members seems to be the combination of "it wasn't me"-calls and "ok, I'll resign then"-actions.

Devil's grin

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Concern about an end to Red-Green

That's rather amusing. You're offline for a couple of days, come back and what happens? You watch the government dismantle itself. Rather amusing indeed...

You can find the original article on tagesschau online here.

Union disputes retirement age

Isn't there early retirement for politicians when their ideas are completely absurd and stupid? Maybe one could also send the Junge Union in there before some of them potentially cause confusion in politics or business. At any rate, it's reassuring that – no matter how stupidly the SPD, Greens, PDS or other parties behave – the Union always manages to top it

Teufelsgrinsen

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Broadcast Break

Due to an extended weekend in the Sauerland (meeting of crazy photographers), things will probably be a bit thin around here over the next few days ...

80x86 ASM for ASP.NET

Ouch. Writing ASP.NET pages in assembler. Sure. That's what I dream about. At night. When I've eaten too much pizza beforehand. With pepperonis.

Teufelsgrinsen

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.

Secret Services

That was kind of to be expected...

At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.

And which enemy of the Christian Church are you?

I'm a Philosopher/Scientist!

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Here's the original article.

Wood mice orient themselves like 'Hansel and Gretel'

Cool. That raises the question for me of how many people are now in the forest paying attention to forest mice's trail markers and mixing them up to mess with the mice.

Teufelsgrinsen

At RP-Online: Wissenschaft there's the original article.

Merz: Cut social assistance entirely in extreme cases

Could this Merz finally please be committed? I mean, he's slowly becoming a danger to the public...

At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.

SCO: Next in line are Red Hat and SuSE

Well, at least they write that they only want to tackle this if the lawsuit against IBM is successful. But I can't imagine that happening either. Somehow I'm getting the feeling that SCO is not only becoming unpopular on the market, but will also become obsolete in the long run. So to speak, the Atari of the Unix world.

Devilish grin

I found the original article at heise online news.

Report: New left-wing terror group emerging

Hmm. The headline mentions a left-wing terror group, but nowhere in the entire report is a single point mentioned that has anything to do with left-wing radicalism. Strange kind of reporting and headline choice - shouldn't the headline be related to the content?

With the Bild newspaper I'm used to that sort of thing, it's quite possible that they're just building up a fear scenario again to boost circulation, but I would have expected somewhat more engagement with the article from the Rheinische Post.

I found the RP Online: Politics and the original article there.

Blair for sole US supremacy

There really is no argument stupid enough that a politician wouldn't bring it up at some point. Hey, unions also disturb social peace because they allow employees to meet with employers on equal footing. That's dangerous and disruptive, so we should definitely abolish unions too. How? Someone already made that argument, except they made a bigger deal out of it and phrased it differently.

Devil's grin

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

The Patriot Act and Its Impact in the USA

Anyone who wants to read what the Patriot Act really means - namely the suspension of constitutional rights of Americans in their own country - can read the linked article. It reminds one suspiciously of certain occurrences from an earlier Germany. Only the clothing is different - maybe.

Here's the original article.

Schemix - A Scheme In The Linux Kernel

Ok. I love Lisp. And I love Scheme as a very elegant, lean Lisp dialect. But a Scheme interpreter integrated in the kernel goes a bit too far even for me

surprised face

Although - that could be a starting point for the OpenSource Lisp machine

I found at Lambda the Ultimate the original article.

Study: Every Second Person Accepts Paid Internet Offerings

And because I bizarrely only know people who all prefer the free (both as in beer and as in speech) web, I'll just keep blogging. For free. And sometimes for nothing either.

Teufelsgrinsen

Here's the original article.

More on the Mini-PC

Hmm. With Linux on it, that would really be cute.

At Gizmodo I found the original article.

Bare Facts

After watching TV reports yesterday about public destruction of Dixie Chicks records, this article came along today at just the right moment. I can only agree with Martie Maguire here: this really is like going back to the time of book burnings. Or back to McCarthy. Well, the land of the free - where you can express any opinion if you're willing to be disadvantaged, to suffer, or even to die for it.

I found the original article at Der Rollberg.

Pharmaceutical wholesalers and doctors suspected of fraud

That's certainly good for the healthcare system. But doctors keep resisting control mechanisms - sometimes you get the suspicion that they're just trying to cover for their colleagues. And you can see that there are plenty of black sheep in cases like this, the heart valve scandal and some other incidents in recent times.

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Spammers take anti-spam activists to court

Is the tail trying to wag the dog here?

At heise online news there's the original article.

Terry Jones on Tony Blair.

Reposting things from Rollberg is admittedly boring since everyone's already read it anyway, but this comment on Terry Jones is absolutely worth reading!

At Der Rollberg I found the original article.

Chicken McSpam

Well, if McDonalds starts spamming, at least people know what kind of junk they're putting in their mouths. In that sense, the advertising measure fits the product quite well, both have roughly the same nutritional value

Teufelsgrinsen

At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.

Kohl conducted lobbying as Chancellor

Oh no. Are they finally going to get the fat man on the hook? I still can't believe it - unfortunately he's gotten away with everything so far. Even with dubious donation dealings, so what should a bit of lobbying for a media guy do to him ...

At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.

py-xmlrpc 0.8.8.3

Yep, definitely check whether I shouldn't include this in the build process of the Python Community Server and the Python Desktop Server - they don't have performance problems yet, but it doesn't hurt if things get even faster

I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.

Pyro 3.2

And I should take a look at that too, even though I'm currently missing the application for it (usually XML/RPC or SOAP is enough for me).

At PyPI recent updates there's the original article.

Behrens warns against intellectual Nazis

Oh. Oh wow. Behrens is quick! Well, I think this circumstance has actually been known in the antifa movement for a very long time, but it's good if a politician gets to hear about it too.

Teufelsgrinsen

At WDR.de there's the original article.

GSM/GPRS on an SD card

When will there be drivers for Linux that work on the Zaurus too?

I found the original article at Gizmodo.

Kos on Bush's Iraq Lies

And the next lazy excuse for war being sought ...

At lies.com there's the original article.

Grosse Pointe Blank - good film, but no clue about cameras

So the film is great. But when the protagonist takes a picture of his sweetheart with a Minox B, there shouldn't be a flash and also no sound of a motorized film transport

Teufelsgrinsen

Heise goes east, but please without employees

Well, if the next time a snide comment about dubious personnel decisions at IT companies appears in the Heise ticker, you could always present them with the personnel decisions of their own house ...

surprised face

At dotcomtod you can find the original article.

Luminous Landscape Reviews Fuji S2 Pro

Quite interesting the test. The S2 Pro performs surprisingly well - and that despite being somewhat older. At least if you apply the lifespan standards of Digital SLRs

I found the original article at PhotographyBLOG.

Restart of US Nuclear Weapons Production

Uncool.

I found the original article at Telepolis News.

The world as a blog

Cool! Here's the original article.

White House silent on attacks on gay people

Well. Pretty liberal the whole thing ...

At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.

Just a little self-promotion again

Psst. New beta. Want one?

At PyPI recent updates I found the original article.

OpenBSD in Disgrace

A fine mess: Before the OpenBSD partners even found out about it, the university apparently arranged by phone for the Hyatt to cancel the reservations and pocket the $15,300 paid so far—roughly 80 percent of its total claim—without providing any service in return. Where does something like that happen? Would rather waste the money than help the evil OpenBSD project? In some respects, Americans have only themselves to blame for such actions if anti-Americanism keeps growing stronger.

I found the original article on heise online news.

Roland Koch: Equal Pay for More Work

And I thought the problem of the labor market was the many unemployed people who can't find work because it's being done by many others. But I guess I misunderstood that.

Teufelsgrinsen

I found the original article at RP Online: Politik.

Weblog Hosting

Also http://muensterland.org/ is also completely official and costs nothing - at least with the numeric user ID instead of a fancy name.

At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.

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