==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The following was written shortly after my ⋯

Richie BartlettJust as valid today as it was 20+ years ago. This is Part One of Code As Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves. Click here for the introduction. This essay first appeared in the Fall, 1992 issue of C++ ⋯

Overall, the otherwise great security of iOS has been compromised… by Apple… by design.

While Japan’s bank of English loan words has grown to the point where “context” and even “paradigm” can be understood by most people, there seems to be only a handful of Japanese words that have been sprinkled into the modern ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Nice… Please don’t infect me with your HTML!!! ;) If you’re talking tech with Americans, you may want to avoid using any jargon. A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to ⋯

How do I block spam/crap that gets delivered to my cellphone email address? My ____@i.softbank.jp account has apparently been data-mined by some asshole and is bombarding my keitai with 20 spam mails per hour!!! I’m getting ⋯

iBooks 1.0 is complete and utter CRAP!!! I bothered to upgrade my MacBook to Mavericks (10.9.1) because I thought iBooks might be a nice epub reader… I was seriously mistaken! Not only does it rip and tear up my books from ⋯

ReadTheKanjiJanuary 11, 2014Yoji-jukugo of The Day: Yudan-taitekiYudan-taiteki literally means, “carelessness is the greatest enemy.” A wider translation is, “danger comes when you least expect it.”Yoji-jukugo are idiomatic ⋯

LOL Web design seminar…

In response to: https://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/06/largest-prime-number-yet-discovered/ Hmm… write a program to find a prime number that is a billion digits long… Earn $250,000! Simple program to write… But very time ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.The world viewed through the eyes of Isaac Asimov… Almost 50 years ago, he had some very good predictions for how the world would be like today! The New York World’s Fair of 1964 is dedicated to “Peace ⋯

A software engineer’s take on the new education call to arms. Antoine Hage explains the JavaScript code to employees of software company FreeCause at a JavaScript training boot camp on June 6, 2012. In the past few years, ⋯

SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/ Timothy B. Lee August 18, 2013 Gotcha now my pretty! And, it only took 44 minutes to find ⋯

Dependency Injection: An analogy 🔗 I’ve been working on a proposal for including service locators and dependency injection containers in Zend Framework 2.0, and one issue I’ve had is trying to explain the basic concept to ⋯

Writing code is, effectively, a love letter between the coder and the computer – full of inside jokes and pet phrases that are meaningless to those not part of the relationship.

Reference: http://blog.prof.so/2013/04/badadvice.html 10 Pieces of Really Bad Advice (for Computer Scientists) “Don’t worry about the complexity of the algorithm we will never have enough data for it to make too much ⋯

In response to: http://jacquesmattheij.com/domain-knowledge-or-a-lack-thereof Well said. Well written. Educate yourself before your apply that knowledge!

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Nicely written joke using the metaphor of hiring a capenter to how IT companies look for talent… The absurdity of it goes a long way to explain how programmers feel when the interviewer ⋯

This ol’ bear keeps moving. Not bad for a three hour “cruise” on the streets of Tokyo.

Got a good pace here. Need to keep up the great work. Although, with the pending Xmas & New Year’s celebrations, it may be a bit hard to remain strict on my diet.