Diovo

Sorry. I screwed up.

Yesterday was not the best day in the history of this blog. Probably those of you who subscribed to the feeds have noticed. I tried to combine the feeds from here and the voidy blog to one single feed and it resulted in a multitude of duplicate feeds to be ...

More on ads

For the last one year or so I have been using a desktop application that displayed an ad (something like 800 x 60 pixels) in its header. Since yesterday the ad is not showing up. Now, I cannot recall what the ad was about! It is a real shame that ads don’t work ...

Ad Revenue on the Web?

I wish more people understood this: if ads are working on your site it is because someone has figured out how to monetize your users. (At a multiple of how much you get from the ads!) Why isn't that someone you? - from HN

Real security of our cryptographic algorithms

A few days ago at EuroCrypt 2009, security researchers announced an attack on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. The attack is a fairly serious one and it is a strong signal for software vendors to move away from SHA-1. For almost all cryptographic algorithms, if the digest length is n, it means ...

The map is not the territory

An abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. I bet you will read that sentence again. Anyway, let me explain. What you see below is not a laptop. What you see is the picture of a laptop. Not meant to be funny. But this simple fact does ...

Presentations

The last day I sat through another boring presentation. The problem is that people mistake presentations for lectures. If you want to teach me something, give me the book. Or pass me that spreadsheet if you want to show some data. And send me an email when you want to share some new information. I am ...

The myth of career growth

Conventional corporate hierarchies make sure that there are only a handful of managers for every hundred employees. So your chances of becoming a manager are very small. This is the same reason why only a small percentage of employees in any organization get promotions. This means that the odds of you ...

Take the walk

You've heard the stories. Some years ago, a group of people at NASA sent a man to moon. They sent a vehicle carrying a man thousands of miles into the space and managed to land exactly on the surface of the moon! Can you comprehend the complexity of the operation? Then there is ...

Why you probably should not learn Java

There are a lot of programming languages out there and people are always confused about the programming language they should use to develop their applications. We see a lot of people asking the question "Which programming language should I use?". And there are many fresh graduates and new programmers who want to ...

Innovation

What if when you search for a solution to one of your problems you find that there are no solutions listed anywhere in the web? What if there are no google results for your query? This essentially means that there are no solutions to your problem anywhere. If it is not ...