Category: Thoughts
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Beyond The Sky
The sky is the most fascinating thing we’ll likely ever see in our lifetime. It make us crane our neck upward, with eyes wide and lips parted in awe. Yes, Earth is a wonderful place, so full of diversity and yet mostly undiscovered, so why bother even looking elsewhere? Because the sky is… well, all…
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Fingerprints as Passwords
I’ll list the reasons why using fingerprints as passwords is bad. You only have 10 of them (assuming you don’t use your feet’s) Once one is stolen from a device or server, it’s not like you can change it, but it’s gone forever Someone, without reaching extremes like chopping fingers off, could just force your…
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On Broken Windows And Social Values
Go and read about the Broken Windows Theory. I’ll wait here, take your time. Now, I believe there’s one main corollary to that theory: People don’t do what society tells them is not acceptable. For example, despite it is very easy to do, people don’t generally kill people. They don’t insult each other. People don’t…
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Agile Team Leading for Dummies
In the past several months I seldom wrote code. I wrote emails, I had conf calls on Hangouts, I wrote specs, with various degrees of detail. But code, almost never, unless it was an itch that I desperately needed to scratch now. What I do is paving the way for others, so they can find neat,…
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The Fallacies of Science Fiction
If you pay attention to some of the details that normally don’t matter much in a sci-fi story, and that are just ancillary aspects – narrative sugar, if you like the definition – you’ll notice several fallacies and mistakes that are so common that they have become invisible to your eyes. This is particularly true in…