Today, Harvard Business School canceled the acceptance of 119 students they had written acceptance letters for but not yet delivered. The root of all this was a discovery by one applicant that you could easily access your own acceptance (or rejection letter) online through ApplyYourself’s horribly insecure online application system. Harvard’s stand is that these […]
Lol, Microsoft has made a page to help parents understand ‘13375p34k’ (leetspeak) so they can understand what their hacker kids are doing. I think its so hilarious to have such a serious analysis of such an utterly dorky thing. For example:
“Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels […]
Interesting read for all you open source folks (the whole one or two of them that read my blog). Its about the problems of “fundamentalist” open source zealots (RMS and the crew comes to mind). If you don’t know who RMS is and don’t know what the GPL is then don’t even try reading it, […]
Wow this fictional account of Linus Torvalds working at Microsoft was funny, very funny (but if you are not a techie it will probably be confusing and boring). It provides humor, baseless speculation, and snide commentary to Microsoft all in one nice package. Nice! My favorite part,
You never made me alter my goal, which was […]
Here a bit of a change from the semi-regular updates I’ve been posting. I figured that I could give a small review on a couple of books I’ve read recently. These books fill an interesting niche; one that suites myself well, but possibly not many others.
The author of these books is Donald E. Knuth. For […]