I just watched a german video about the total control through the BKA (a German organisation comparable to the FBI). The attempts to control everything and everybody is based on the common misconception, that more security technology means more security. Often the opposite is true. I don’t even want to talk about the ‘Bundestrojaner’, malware [...]
Everybody who understands the working of a Turing machine and that of SQL understands, that SQL probably isn’t Turing complete, i.e. you can’t use it to build a Turing machine. Yet I’m going to show that you actually can implement a Turing Engine using Oracle SQL. So for those among you who haven’t studied informatics: [...]
Jeff Atwood outed himself as an ugly american when he blogged about english as the lingua franka of software developers. I quite agree: You should write almost all things code in English. For an American this shouldn’t be a problem, but for Germans (like me) and all the other non native speakers this comes as [...]