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Computer Science and it’s Ethics or Lack Thereof
Recently, I had a class project in which I had to track down a code of ethics for my career field, computer science. In the course of this research, something astonished me. First, that it was pretty much impossible to find a local company that had a code of ethics for their staff programmers and […]
Trent Reznor Does Something Different and Succeeds
Trent Reznor, the front man for Nine Inch Nails, who has widely been acknowledged as one of the most important artists in the music industry. Trent Reznor has released a new multi-part album, Ghosts I-IV, with both a Creative Commons license and an innovative pricing scheme. The first 9 tracks are available as a free […]
Object Oriented Programming Is Not an Excuse for Forgetting to Design Your System
This post is dedicated to a lecturer that I am taking a class with this semester at Texas Tech University. This person doesn’t like object-orientated programming (OOP), which I do love (I <3 Java big time). His main argument against Java and other object-orientated based programming languages is that it pushes people away from developing […]
TED Is Far From Useless
Short intro: It’s good to be back and blogging, sorry about the delay, but hey it took a long time to get stuff working again. So no more excuses onto the business of the day. Umair Haque, today wrote a blog post about TED. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) for those of you who haven’t heard […]
Moving to my own domain
Sorry for the lack of posting the last week. However as a reward I am moving to my own domain, so please point your browsers to http://www.yostivanich.com where my permanent residence online will now sit.
Social Networks and Business
Recently I’m having the chance to view how a business works with social networks and social media. So I wanted to discuss some of the lessons that I am learning in this experience and what exactly are some of the ways a business can use social networks to help themselves. The main goal of a […]
Cheap vs. Frugal
An issue that is near and dear to my heart is the discussion over being cheap or being frugal. This is brought on by all of these articles on the subject. To start with, what does the term cheap mean: of very low account or small cost, frugal on the other hand: economical in use […]
Google and the New York Times: Walking Down the Aisle?
This afternoon a post from Real Clear Markets came up on Techmeme, asking “Might Google Buy the New York Times?” The question is so ridiculous I almost didn’t want to respond but at the same time I can see how some people would think this is a good idea. New York Times would gain the […]
Teaching Philosophy is a Great Idea
Recently the TED Blog highlighted a study noted by the British Psychological Society. The study taught 105 children for 16 months at 1 hour a week philosophical inquiry. The results of the study showed: “Compared with 72 control children, the philosophy children showed significant improvements on tests of their verbal, numerical and spatial abilities”. Perhaps […]
Google and Wikipedia As Research
On Sunday an article came out from The Argus discussing a professor who had banned her students from using Wikipedia and Google. The accuracy of Wikipedia is for a different blog post. The key here is that Wikipedia and Google have been banned as even starting points. I find myself in partial agreement with this […]
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