Makura no Soshi

Supi. Da will ich genau zwei Vorlesungen hören – und beide überschneiden sich zeitlich.  :-|

Names and numbers are important but invaluable resources in IT (e.g. URIs, IPs, e-mail adresses). Their consideration nicely distinguishes techies (for lack of a better word; everyone with certain technological experience and proficiency) from non-techies (e.g. management :->).

Non-techies see these resources as abundant and dirt-cheap because they do not cost any money. – Whereas techies regard them are scarce and expensive because no amount of money can completely revert a bad allocation.

A quick reminder: the application deadline for GSoC2010 is this friday.

I highly recommend to participate because it is a great opportunity to get the experience of working with a mentor in a large open source project.

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