Philosophical Geek

Much as been said about the pros and cons of requiring software engineers to be certified, just like the medical, law, and engineering fields.
I personally do not believe this should happen. First of all, those other, certified, fields have existed for thousands of years. Computer Science is not even a century old. The field is [...]

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Yesterday was a golden day. Everything I touched turned to gold. I solved all the problems that came up, fixed bugs right and left, and even figured out the root cause of a bug that’s been plaguing us for a month or so.
Some days are like that. I like days like this, because I feel [...]

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Have you ever thought about the miracle of music? OK, some might object to the world miracle, but I’m talking about music, something where transcendental terminology is appropriate.
On a piano you have 88 keys. Instruments can go higher (violin) or lower (organ), but with the same repeated 12-note octave everything in western music is created.
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With today’s large blockbuster movies (LOTR, King Kong, Spiderman, Chronicles of Narnia, Titanic) costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, I wonder what will be the first movie to cost $1 billion to produce.
How will they recoupe the cost? When will it happen?
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