Monthly Archives: January 2010

One more reason Intuit sucks

1/26/2010 – 3:55 pm

What if there was a magical way to save California taxpayers time and money? The state of California, which collects wage data more speedily from employers — with a Jan. 31 deadline — shows what is technically possible. With little money to finance the project, and over the objections of the tax-preparation software lobby, the [...]

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Software that kills

1/24/2010 – 4:25 pm

What a spectacular level of incompetence, to produce software that when it fails, does so in an open state. In computer security, the goal is for systems to fail in a closed state by default, so a breach is more difficult. Clearly Varian has a different vision for software quality: The investigation into what happened [...]

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Just which decade is it?

1/2/2010 – 3:08 pm

I stumbled upon this hilarity from the PostgreSQL docs. The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write [...]

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