I am replying only to Hackers-IL. The big bummer (noticed by several other people as well) is the apparent intention to support only ASCII. One of the bloggers...
Omer Zak
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Feb 3, 2008 6:07 pm
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Hi all. Inspired by the bit about the Solaris true here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Comcast-Bill,-A-Buggy-Traffic-Light,-and-More.aspx I decided to...
... Funny or not - it has to. Thats the GNU Coding Standards for you... http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces Sec. 4.7:...
Well - according to http://www.koders.com/c/fidDF83F838AA5D91F9B07D35DD6353BCA20BD2B48B.aspx /bin/true and /bin/false are the same program: /* Act like "true"...
Recently I've encountered a modularity issue in my code, I had a function like the following <<<<<<<<<<<<<< sub _is_event_pass { return ($self->_event->is_ok()...
http://www.theobjectiveobserver.com/articles/technology03.shtml 1. I do not see as much hate-filled rhetoric among Free Software developers as the author sees....
Omer Zak
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Mar 18, 2008 2:20 pm
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... I also see a lot of inaccuracies, over-generalisations, wrong facts, and lack of credit in the article (which I did not finish reading because I found out ...
Hi all! Having found a server to host MediaWiki on, we have recently restored both http://wiki.perl.org.il/ and http://wiki.osdc.org.il/ . I can try doing the ...
... Just FYI, theobjectiveobserver.com is a personal web site, registered to: Greg Deckler 155 Jackson Blvd Plain City, Ohio 43046 United States It's just one...
See also Scott Dowdle's rebuttal in: http://www.montanalinux.org/just-a-few-clarifications.html ... [... snipped ...] -- MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC...
Omer Zak
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Mar 20, 2008 1:13 am
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... I thought I'd write that guy an email. Then I looked through his other articles. He comes across as someone who doesn't really care what other people...
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:47:46 +0200 ... Actually the original article mis-represents the gole, objective and economic model of the opensource software and uses...
Hello all I've forwarded an email I wrote in response to an email in a subject we had here not long ago, regarding some supposedly objective web site and the...
Once in a while I read about some project or other, usually in USA or Great Britain, which incurs big delays and/or huge overruns along with under-delivery of...
Omer Zak
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Mar 31, 2008 3:56 am
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... There haven't ever been any big software development projects in Israel because Israel is a consumer nation that doesn't produce anything. The only jobs in...
... Thanks. Synopsis for the lazy: this is a news item about a failed IT project which Ness was to deliver to Harel, the insurance company. Harel wanted about...
Omer Zak
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Mar 31, 2008 9:16 pm
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... I prefer my computer to collapse than my ceiling! People don't usually die when their personal computer collapses.... May all victims of PalKal rest in...
Uri
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Mar 31, 2008 9:36 pm
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http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa05/cs473ug/resources/pessimal-algorithms.pdf The big and burning question, which I was asking myself as I skimmed through the...
Omer Zak
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Mar 31, 2008 9:39 pm
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... Regarding "victims of Pal-Kal" you may wish to consult this: http://shlomif.livejournal.com/37841.html Regards, Shlomi Fish ... Shlomi Fish...
... My father works in the construction business and knows Eli Ron (founder of "Fall-Kal" a.k.a. Easy-Fall). Actually I think more Pal-Kal buildings fell...
Uri
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Apr 1, 2008 11:04 pm
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Hi all! I'm including here a few funny (or hopefully funny at least) IRC conversations that took place recently, and which I added to the bottom of ...
[ Note: This essay has a more universal message than computers, but it also applies to it, as I shall demonstrate. I'd like to post it on my blog, but I'm...
... Other examples: 1. Getting as wealthy as possible. 2. Overcoming a never-ending series of challenges (scientific discoveries, extreme sports, Guiness-level...
Omer Zak
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Apr 22, 2008 9:37 am
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... True to some extent, but while I would love to be rich, I don't see myself needing to be very rich. It is known that Alexander Dumas who wrote many popular...
... I guess you studied differential equations in the Technion, right? Then you should know why exponential growth happens. It happens when the change of the...
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