During the day you need to borrow some money from a colleague. You pick up your colleague, reach into their trousers and pull out their wallet.
Category Archives: aside
Le sens du mot beta dans le monde windows
I’ve heard people say something like “You shouldn’t install Beta software unless you’re prepared to wipe your hard drive and reinstall everything, OS included”
WS-machiavellian ?
I remember talking with Andrew Layman, one of the SOAP architects at Microsoft. He let slip that it was actually a Microsoft objective to make the standard sufficiently complex that only the tools would read and write this stuff, and not humans. So that was a strategy tax that was imposed by the big companies on some of this technology, where they made it more complicated than it needed to be so they could sell tools.
Tim O’Reilly (source: WS-* vs. the REST )
Le triangle des bermudes électronique
The electronic Bermuda triangle where data is added to a system and then is irretrievable is a very well-known phenomenon.
source: Electronic Records
Le diable a deux visages
Tous les informaticiens savent que le diable, dans leur métier, a deux visages : le couplage et la redondance