Being a software developper gives you a whole lot of possibilities. You are often given confidential documents. You have access to confidential data that most people would not have access too.
I was once maintaining an online shop where every credit card was stored with a simple symmetric cipher with the key in plain text in [...]
In a programmer’s mind
Philosophy —
Category Archives: Philosophy
Code of conduct
Building up social skills
Some weeks ago, I realized something important. Software development is first and foremost a task about communication. It is not the kind of communication happening on network links. It is about human communication.
A programmer will typically have to speak or communicate with his fellow programmers, the analyst, the architect, the projet manager, the customer, the [...]
Central control, central power
2009 is here. My new year resolution is actually a wish. I wish we move towards a more decentralized way of doing things wheter it is within the political system, within companies, within open source projects, the way we create things.
The more I think about it, the more it make sense to do it. How [...]
Getting closer to the universal machine
Not so long ago, there was this small internet news about a printer that could self-replicate. It is the RepRap. It did not fly high in the news list, but to me, it is an important achievement.
Why is this important? Because it is one of the small steps toward the universal machine: a machine that [...]
Time for changes
These days, it is time for changes in my life. I have just moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend. Actually, my girlfriend is on working in another city, five hours north of here for another two weeks, but we are officially staying together.
The other big news for me is that I resigned from [...]
The dangers of armed robots
Should we fear robots and those that are armed?
If you have been reading a bit of science-fiction centered around the robotic theme, you know that in most cases, there are problems. Robots or intelligent machines replace every man in their work, they become the masters of the human race and they start a bloody war [...]