Shlomi Fish - Slashdot User

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."

Submission + - What Makes Software High-Quality? (shlomifish.org)

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Shlomi Fish

on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @05:35AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "What makes good software applications high-quality? An article on my site aims to answer this question by listing several parameters for quality, and some methods to achive them. It is written from the focus and viewpoint of an open-source user and developer, but a lot there is applicable to other domains."

Submission + - Israeli Censorship Law Rolls On

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Shlomi Fish

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @04:23PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "A New Internet Censorship Law Proposal has been passed in a pre-voting process, despite many objections, including some from the Israeli Ministry of Treasury and the Ministry of Law. This law proposal aims to prevent minors from accessing questionable sites, and would require grown-ups to identify using bio-metric identfication for a non-restricted access to the Internet."

Submission + - Where to Submit Articles (for Pay)?

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Shlomi Fish

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @06:19PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "I'm an open-source software developer, and write technical articles, technical or non-technical essays, and some blog entries. I've been writing articles for O'ReillyNet for payment (and for Freshmeat.net for T-shirts), but been often set back by the lack of the responsiveness of some of the editors there. (They are busy after all).

Can anyone recommend some online publications they had a good experience with, which will pay for submissions? I'm relatively flexible, and can accept most editorial changes, but really need good responsiveness. Note that I'm a technical person and knows programming and computers inside and out."

Submission + - Proposed Internet Censorship Law in Israel

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Shlomi Fish

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @05:04AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Gal Mor reports on YnetNews.com on a new proposal for an Israeli Internet censorship law, which will require ISPs to implement censorship at the ISP level, and the surfers to identify themselves using bio-metric means and passwords to prevent minors from viewing sites with unsuitable content. Also see a discussion on the Israeli Linux mailing list.

This law is very bad and should better be stopped so please help spread the word."

Submission + - Larry Wall's State of the Onion 10

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Shlomi Fish

on Friday September 22, 2006 @06:11PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Perl.com presents the 10th installment in Larry Wall's yearly "State of the Onion" series. As most things Larry it makes an entertaining read. This time Larry touches about families (including his own), and about various programming paradigms."

Submission + - The Case for File Swapping

Submitted by on Monday August 21, 2006 @04:35PM

Shlomi Fish writes: With all the fuss about Internet File Sharing, and how wrong it is, few people have stopped to ask omse important questions: should it be illegal? Can it be stopped? Is fighting it worth it? "The Case for File Swapping" explains why file swapping is not an illegitimate action and why it should in fact be legal.

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