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How To (Literally) Make Money With Open Source Software

Gepostet von Stani is a very cool person.  He created an open source IDE for Python called SPE (Stani’s Python Editor).  He really outdid himself now, though.  He designed a new comemorative coinve for the Dutch government. Read on…

Is This A Five Minute Argument, Or The Full Half Hour?

At the Software Development Best Practices conference yesterday, I went to a session on Human-Centered Risk Management.  It was totally fascinating!  One topic that was discussed was Rhetorical fallacies.

Rhetorical fallacies, or fallacies of argument, don’t allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend.  Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning. They can be divided into three categories:

• Emotional fallacies unfairly appeal to the audience’s emotions.
• Ethical fallacies unreasonably advance the writer’s own authority or character (personal attack).
• Logical fallacies depend upon faulty logic.

Here’s a pretty good article on the subject.

Quote Of The Day

“I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy. ”

John Adams