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2002-04-19

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David McCusker: "It's clear to me pair programming is better for clearly rote tasks. I'd also expect it to work very well in most class design contexts. Clarity of design matters most, and having a critic at hand is great.

"But pair progamming might work poorly in some problem contexts. I haven't noticed that creative problem solving works in groups. Maybe because weaker thinkers seem to not filter many terrible ideas. Committee analysis only very rarely evokes any degree of elegance."

2002-04-19-dmccOnPP

Good SDOM reading over at Mr Felter's site: wmf.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$7405?mode=day

2002-04-19-sdom

On Latent Semantic Analysis ...

"The tools which are currently available to me have proven to be unable to process a file this large [~ 25 MB]. Prelimiary processing of this data set took nearly 8 days, after which time the experiment was scrapped. I plan to find other LSA tools which are better suited to dealing with the database as a whole and not just threads from it."

ella.slis.indiana.edu/~klabarre/unrev_tasks.html

"In the end it must be said that this exercise has failed to conclusively demonstrate one way or another the effectiveness of latent semantic analysis and force directed placement as a method for assisting in the creation of access structures for email archives."

ella.slis.indiana.edu/~cjdent/project3/

Thanks to Gavin for the links.

2002-04-19-onLSA

~~Nichts~~ Wenig geht mir mehr auf die Nerven als völlig unsinnige Passwort-Constraints. Mindestens 16 Zeichen, davon mindestens 12 Zahlen, 8 Grossbuchstaben, 6 Kleinbuchstaben, 4 Sonderzeichen ausser "?", "_", "." "&", "(", "´", dabei darf sich kein Zeichen wiederholen (ausser man verwendet "X", das darf nur in Dreiergruppen auftreten) — und ein Passwort, das die letzten 18 Jahre einmal verwendet wurde, das hat sowieso auf ewig ausgedient. Fsck, ich bin für die Sicherheit meiner Accounts schon selbst verantwortlich, und wenn ich "joe" als Passwort will, dann ist das eben so. Zudem gibt es weiss Gott bessere Wege, seine Sophistication als Web-Application-Konstrukteur unter Beweis zu stellen ...

Konkreter Anlassfall: connect.apple.com.

2002-04-19-misc

(Yet another) Flash XML-RPC library: members.netmadeira.com/killer/xmlrpc/

2002-04-19-yAFlashXR