AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards.

pre porovnanie vizie a misie :)

perfektne vysvetlene ako vizualizovat hru Quake na (lepsom) osciloskope.

Need-to-know (like other security measures) can be misused by persons who wish to refuse others access to information they hold in an attempt to increase their personal power or prevent unwelcome review of their work.

ten blogpost je o niecom uplne inom (mikroformatoch), ale je tam zaujimavy kapitolka o tom, ze sa im email ako nastroj na vymenu informacii a brainstorming neosvedcil: Perhaps the most important is that as a community we are far more efficiently productive using just IRC and the wiki, than any amount of use of email. In fact, the microformats drafts that were developed wtih the most email (e.g. hAudio) turned out to be the hardest to follow and discuss (too many long emails), and sadly ended up lacking the simplicity that real world publishers wanted (e.g. last.fm).

My colleague and friend Clinton told me once about himself (I'm paraphrasing): "I'm a stack, not a queue". This is not a post about queue and stack data structures, but about people and their behavior biases toward task management.

quality happens only if somebody has the responsibility for it, and that "somebody" can be no more than one single person. anyone who has ever wondered whether using m4 macros to configure autoconf to write a shell script to look for 26 Fortran compilers in order to build a Web browser was a bit of a detour, Brooks offers well-reasoned hope that there can be a better way.

odkaz na samotnu studiu o WoW je v ramci toho vacsieho clanku na bbc.

the spirit of modern society is one of intense equality, which is a torture in terms of envy, for when egalitarian ambitions circulate in societies that tell themselves that anyone can do anything, the experience of envy goes into over-drive. We don't envy everyone, we do so only when we think their advantages are within our reach. So when almost everything feels like it could be ours (but a lot never can be), the opportunities for envy grow dangerously large.

Hackathon SNG je prvým z podujatí, kde sa stretnú programátori, grafickí dizajnéri, zvukoví majstri a ďalší kreatívci, aby počas dvoch dní navrhli a vytvorili projekt s využitím našich dát.

The longer an engineer remains at a company, the harder it is to find a few hours of isolation, free from interruption, to get work done.

nejako mi to pripomenulo dnesne zufale pokusy stiahnut nejake data zo serveru v malawi: The ten minutes you spent planning will save 30 minutes later in the day when you don't have to spend the time shuffling through the papers on your desk, looking for that one thing you misplaced. Think like a chef: Put everything in its place today, and watch your workflow speed up to five-star quality.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

It's not useful to reserve a portion of my screen for displaying which applications are running, as the things that are running are visible and the things that aren't visible can be found when necessary. There's no need for an icon displaying wifi status; if I'm connected it's uninteresting and if I'm not connected I'll surely discover it if I attempt to use the internet.