"Satoshi Nakamoto" is the alias of the
anonymous person who invented and published the protocol for Bitcoin. So
far, no one knows for sure who it is, although attempts have been made
to unmask the person (or people) by an analysis of their writing style
and similar indicators. Now, in …
Posted Thu 18 April 2013 by mcherm in Programming, Security
So, "Sunil Kumar" of Panzer Solutions wrote to me a ten days ago offering a position. Normally, I appreciate hearing from recruiters. As it happens, I have no interest in a new job; I am happy with my current position and have plenty of new challenges there recently. But it …
Posted Thu 31 January 2013 by mcherm in Software Development
After looking at the iPhone 5, I see people saying that phones already have everything they need... nothing new will happen. That's completely absurd. There are tons of little things, for instance I want a browser that can do everything the PC browsers can do. But there are also HUGE …
Posted Fri 21 September 2012 by mcherm in Technology
Ben Northrop wrote to complain that story points are not accurate. They don't (always) map linearly to hours spent, so adding up story points over a large project won't accurately give hours for the project. In the spirit of expressing controversial opinions, I will agree, and explain why I think …
Posted Thu 30 August 2012 by mcherm in Programming
Suppose you wanted to build a tool for anonymously capturing the websites that a user visited and keeping a record of the public sites while keeping the users completely anonymous so their browsing history could not be determined. One of the most difficult challenges would be finding a way to …
Posted Mon 12 March 2012 by mcherm in Programming