by admin on July 17, 2006
Hank just blogged about critical thinking. If I had to state my own concise definition of what lies at the heart of critical thinking, it would be a personal commitment to finding the right solution to any problem, regardless of whether or not figuring it out and the subsequent implications are easy or comfortable (in practice, this usually means being the resident skeptic right at the point everyone... more
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by jcannon on July 03, 2006
We had to buy our own combination padlocks on our lockers in my high school. I used to forget the combination all the time (—I still have nightmares about that). I finally solved this by writing my combination in hex on the back of the lock. (I figured there was only one other kid in my class who would know what 0F was in base-10, so if anything was ever missing, I’d know where to look.)... more
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by admin on June 20, 2006
Not long after I blogged about “disambiguating open” as a research issue, a debate erupted on Slashdot about “How Open Does Open Source Need to Be?” Three different criteria for deciding whether something could legitimately call itself “open source” seemed to me to dominate the discussion...... more
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by admin on June 06, 2006
Disambiguate (transitive verb): to establish the true meaning of an expression, regulation, or ruling that is confusing or that could be interpreted in more than one way...... more
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by admin on April 21, 2006
In part 2 of "Inside the Open Source Software Lab", we discuss some of the lab’s other areas of focus and how that research is helping Microsoft better understand Open Source Software trends.... more
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by admin on March 31, 2006
Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab is an ambitious research project. Located on the company’s main campus, the lab houses more than 300 servers, which collectively run more than 15 versions of UNIX and 50 Linux distributions. It boasts a... more
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