The Fishbowl

It's only called AI if it comes from the AI region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling autocomplete. →

By law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? →

Spam on Usenet was a big deal beacuse of the way Usenet worked. It was a broadcast protocol where every message posted to Usenet got copied to every server that carried the newsgroup it was posted to. →

What happens when you debate what you think someone else believes, not what you believe. →

One day, my boss pulled me into his office and said "Do you know Microsoft Active Server Pages?" →

The first priority of any software should be to do what the user is asking it to do. Don’t tell me that your time is worth more than mine. →

All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done! →

I’m not sure whether I prefer to be 0x28, or 101000. →

Many things in Star Wars don’t make sense, but this one turns out to be pretty straightforward. Leia is badass. →

Arbitrary object deserialization (or marshalling, or un-pickling, whatever your language calls it) is inherently unsafe, and should never be performed on untrusted data. →