Shlomi Fish - Slashdot User

Submission + - Fiction: "Summerschool at the NSA" - the NSA getting schooled on security

Submitted by Shlomi Fish on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @10:00PM

Shlomi Fish writes: In the fictional story Summerschool at the NSA , the Hollywood actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar (of Buffy fame), and Summer Glau (notable for being featured in xkcd), conspire to kick the ass of the NSA (= the United States National Security Agency) using special warfare that is completely non-violent, thus teaching it an important lesson about security.

For extra geek points, Summerschool at the NSA is under a Creative Commons licence (CC-by-sa) and is maintained in a GitHub repository. Share, enhance, and enjoy!

Submission + - Why "Publish or Perish" is "Life or Death" (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Sunday March 31, 2013 @09:02PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "A short essay making claim that it is essential to publish almost every innovative conclusion you came up with ("publish"), rather than keeping knoweldge and insights to yourself, lie, or use other forms of camouflage, which will cause your demise (= "perish"), which eventually translates to “Life or death”. Following that, it criticises the NSA for balantly, and foolishly violating this principle."

Submission + - From MIT and Jenn Lawrence to Hacking and Free Will (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @02:39AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "What is a hacker and hacking? Why was the David who fought Goliath a Hacker and an action hero? How is an action hero different from a tragic hero? What is wrong with M.I.T. and why it matters less at the Technion? What is a tragic hero? What are the machines that can give us questions? And what does Jennifer Lawrence, who won the Academy Awards for Best Actress at the young age of 22 has to do with it? An ongoing blog post where I wish to stop lying to myself and to others, stop speaking in riddles, and put all the cards on the table."

Submission + - Free Mickey Mouse - The Disney Way

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Shlomi Fish

on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:46AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "In a post to the Creative Commons Community mailing list, Shlomi Fish claims that the character of Mickey Mouse has mostly become dead due to the copyright extension fiasco, and the only way to liberate it and make Mickey alive and vibrant again is to free it, and put it under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence (CC-BY), and in the Walt Disney Corporation way of having a big festival with fireworks, and keynotes, and with many celebrity guests and features, and a big celebration. What do you think?"

Submission + - Just write the tests, yo mofo!

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Shlomi Fish

on Thursday February 07, 2013 @12:26PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "A short entry titled “Just write the God-damn tests, m****f***” where I discuss why the artificial distinction between the scopes of the tests (unit tests, integration tests, system tests), etc. does not matter, and you should just write more tests when they are needed. ( Largely inspired by Zed Shaw’s Programming, M***f***. )."

Submission + - Audacity 2.0.0 Released (sourceforge.net)

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Shlomi Fish

on Friday March 30, 2012 @12:00PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Version 2.0.0 of the open-source and cross-platform Audacity audio editor and recorder was released. This is a new stable version with many bug fixes and new features in comparison to the previous stable version 1.2.6. Audacity is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X and for several other OSes."

Submission + - Advanced Perl Maven Video Course (szabgab.com)

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Shlomi Fish

on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @03:21PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "This Advanced Perl training course will allow you to create modules, classes, to write Object Oriented code in the modern way, whether using Moose, or by using only core Perl, manually blessing references."

Submission + - Your Programming Language Must Suck (livejournal.com)

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Shlomi Fish

on Monday June 13, 2011 @04:44PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "A short blog post explains why "your programming language must suck" and why some design decisions in programming language design are actually trade-offs and will always make some people unhappy some of the time. "You're damned either way.""

Submission + - If Programmers Knew Kung-Fu (radvision.com)

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Shlomi Fish

on Friday April 01, 2011 @08:35AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Ran Arad of had written in a RadVision blog about an alternate universe where programming teams are populated by iconic characters from Kung-Fu films. You don't have to be a fan of Kung-Fu films to appreciate, but it might help."

Submission + - Disarm Internet Trolls - the CBT Approach (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @04:40PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "The best way to react to people trolling on Internet forums is not to feed them, right? Wrong! "Don't feed the trolls" is also usually ineffective. Luckily, however, there is more effective approach, inspired by the book "Feeling Good" by David D. Burns. Read about it on the "Unarmed but still Dangerous" blog."

Submission + - Announcing Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition (blogspot.com)

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Shlomi Fish

on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:39AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Freecell Solver Enterprises Inc., on behalf of the Freecell Solver development team, is glad to announce the upcoming availability of Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition. In its Enterprise Edition, Freecell Solver will be enhanced to solve generalised Freecell, in which there can be an arbitrary number of card ranks. Since generalised Freecell is NP-complete. This will allow using Freecell Solver's ingenious, cutting-edge algorithms to solve the previously hard, provably NP-Complete problems of the Travelling Salesman problem, Subset sum, Sudoku and Enterprise content management.

Read more on the announcement to learn more about this and upcoming exciting developments."

Submission + - Open Source Licenses Wars (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Friday August 21, 2009 @03:49PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "There is a new article on my site titled "FOSS Licenses Wars", explaining the features and differences between various the various categories of open-source licenses, and some popular individual one, and that gives some recommendations for which licenses to avoid. I also touch on the aspect of whether use of permissive open-source licenses constitutes a risk to software freedom."

Submission + - Slashdotted Feature Causes AdSense Termination (livejournal.com)

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Shlomi Fish

on Saturday July 11, 2009 @09:18AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Shortly after the publication of the Slashdotted April Fools' Day feature on my site, Google suspended my AdSense account claiming it posed a "significant risk to advertisers". Read my the link for more information on what I tried to regain access to my lost account, how I was not successful, and how bad Google's AdSense support is. Apparently Google ignores their customers just like most other big corporations."

Submission + - Interview with the Author of "Mastering cat

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Shlomi Fish

on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:57AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled "Mastering cat", about the UNIX "cat" command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."

Submission + - Optimizing Code for Speed (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:06AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "There's a new essay called "Optimizing Code for Speed" available on Shlomi Fish's site. It covers the motivation, methods and terminology of optimizing code, and provides many links and examples to illustrate this important subject."

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