Saturday, 26. April 2008, 14:05:26
Absurd, IPCT, Programming, Software
It happened exactly as I expected. I found a plagiary of my original work on parallel computing at
Microsoft's MSDN site . And they even have made a quick-hack implementation for .NET pratform, and aslo exactly in the way as I've proposed in my paper.
When I first published my work one of anonymous commenters asked me whether I had received an offer form Microsoft. I sounded as a joke. And I answered that Microsoft will NEVER contact some unknown small company, especially if it is located in the middle of nowhere...
So far the rethoric question still is: should I ask Microsoft for rewards? Or, at least, for being mentioned in their work?
Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 17:40:05
Programming, IPCTheory
I'm glad to announce that the final version of my
White Paper is released.
It is also included into ISSN proceedings for the international IT conference in Kaunas, Lithuania. So, participation in this conference just forced me to finish my work.

Saturday, 22. March 2008, 20:15:51
Positive_controverse
I've found this in a very interesting and valuable blog by
Susthama:
Here is a rough 12 step guide to help you with the problem of life – addiction to self.
...
Step Seven
Accept that I am limited, imperfect, cruel, hurtful, jealous, passionate, and deficient, this is what keeps me humble and modest. I don’t expect to be Amida or perfect.
...
While I agree with the 12 steps in principle, the seventh step confuses me a little. This step assumes that all the people are weak by definition. And what if some person accounts himself as strong enough? This again leads me to my old thoughts that all religions (including even Buddhism) are designed for weak people (or grey masses).
Maybe strength could be accounted for another weakness? Or maybe a strong person is not normal amongst a human world? I doubt it. In my meaning - personal strength is the ability to fine control and to have a good balance between good and evil. Or in other words - to be beneath the good and evil and to supervise them.
Also, does it mean that Buddha was a weak person too? Otherwise - where these rules come from? Rules can come only from strong and supervising person. Am I missing something?
Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 07:39:16
Absurd
Nice new article
Martian Headsets by famous Joel Spolsky has recently appeared on the Net. It addresses a really hard decision made by Microsoft regarding web standards compliance. Really good artice. I support all his arguments too. Shoulda be read by all web designers. And this is exactly why I'm not even using IE7 today!
And because of the same kind of problems my Opera page now looks a little bit messed too, after a forced major templates upgrade by Opera team. Thank you alot for making me a little more time to work!

(To be fair, Opera kindly reminded me of upcoming template upgrade. But, is it of real help anyway?)
Saturday, 9. February 2008, 19:58:36
MEMEL, Programming, IPCT
2. When you think you're programming...And what it really is:
- Tweaking the code to run innermost loops a little faster: this is preparing for competition in the market;
- Resolving border conditions, fencepost errors and race conditions: debugging
- Rearranging and structuring the code, merging duplicated parts, making functions shorter and clearer: preparing for better product maintenance
- Indenting code, providing comments: preparing for presentation
- Optimizing the code, rewriting parts of code: consequences of bad initial design
- Fighting with tools and frameworks, making workarounds, avoiding known bugs: debugging, testing
- Creating sophisticated constructs, such like "one-liners" in Perl: no point at all; overcomplicates further maintenance
- Writing the initial code from scratch: yes - this is a part of programming!
To be continued...
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