Browsing articles tagged with " Psychology"

The Unique Blockhead – Or Why Your Unique Self Just Ain’t Enough To Succeed

Nov 5, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog  //  No Comments

You unique self just ain't enough for successInspired by What “Be Yourself” Really Means, a cool contemplation about an advice that is usually both, thoughtlessly given and taken.

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Automatic Software Updates To Pain

Jun 24, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog  //  No Comments

HeadshotNot long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. (I’m not talking about updates to the virus database, which are independent of this.)

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Thousands of Dollars a Month Posting Links on Google from Home?

Jun 9, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog, Featured  //  16 Comments

Money at handRecently, I’m increasingly getting spam comments which refer to (yet another) “easy money from home” program. Interestingly, this time the name “Google” is involved. So I just thought I might jot down a bit of rant about it, but this turned out to be an analysis of the “easy money from home” scam pattern. I hope it’s informative, or at least entertaining. And you are welcome to join in.
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What Is Open Source Support Worth To You?

Apr 26, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog, Featured  //  2 Comments

Free Beer Tomorrow Neon SignThe notion of “free” in FOSS – Free and Open Source Software – is commonly explained a “Free as in free speech, not as in free beer”. In practice, open source software is often provided literally for free – as I do with my plugins – and this is often referred to as “It’s free as in ‘free speech’, and as in ‘free beer'”. Read more >>

Professional vs Amateur UI Design

Apr 13, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog  //  No Comments

Help is unavailable! Want help?The other day I started a System Recovery1 on my Vista. Surprisingly (or actually not so surprisingly), I’ve been prompted with the following initial message (translation from German, underlining mine):
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  1. In case you don’t know, since Windows XP the operating system creates recovery points before every installation. If something goes wrong during the installation or an application, so you can’t uninstall it the usual way (or you are unsure if uninstallation really removed everything), you can roll-back relevant OS state (ex. registry) to a saved recovery point. It’s a sort of undo at system level. []

The Conficker Syndrome, Salvationware, And The Real Matrix

Jan 19, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog, Featured  //  No Comments

Say What?Remember in “The Matrix” when Morpheus says to Neo:

What is the Matrix? Control.

Now, we might not live inside a matrix (and even if we did, we wouldn’t know it, so it wouldn’t make a difference), but much of the ado we are facing, especially in the mass media, is just about that: Control.[toc class=toc-right style=”margin-top:-.1em”]

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Mindfulness And Boredom

Jan 1, 2009   //   by Hackadelic   //   Blog, Featured  //  No Comments

InsideSome time ago, I discovered yet another article praising the “single-tasking” mode of the human brain. Once more, an artificial parallel to programming is drawn, and the inherent losses of context switching in multithreaded software.

As if the human brain was anywhere close in function to a computer!

Usually, I’d just smile and move on to more funded writing, but this time I decided I’d make a statement or two on the topic.

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