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I'm a native spanish speaker. To learn english I followed these basic steps: 1. Learn basic grammar and vocabulary. 2. Read. Read a lot. 3. Listen to movies and songs and pick up p…

But the author mentioned qmail, which is an application that was built "secure by design", is non-trivial, and hasn't had many bugs. This is a little paper by the author of qmail: …

The idea of unifying the interface of apis is pretty good IMHO, but I have to say something about this bit "(about objects and abstract data types) No existing user code can do any…

but the world is not ideal, and if money is a strength that can be abused, should you allow anything, without restriction, to be done with it? I believe totaly free economies lead …

I doubt wikipedia's sources, but I can't read it cause the source is a californian book, and there is no link to read it and I don't own the book. The guy was autoritarian, but he …

THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG by Jack London http://www.trussel.com/prehist/strength.htm Basically, the story tells that a tribe figured out that the basic "law" was that no man shoul…

Maybe you should try reading a bit about dependency injection. It is a declarative way to assembly pieces of software (in this case, objects) that have no knowledge of each other. …

I'm not sure I agree. Okay, English is not my primary language, but it largely applies to Spanish. The so called "clutter" sometimes adds expresiveness. He argues that "smile happi…

I stopped reading there: "Juan Domingo Perón, the Argentinean dictator". I'm from argentina, and he was not a dictator, but a president elected democratically. The guy obviously do…

then what about abstract data types?