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	<title>Imran On Tech</title>
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	<description>Musings on technology, development, and the world in general</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Origin of &#8220;Hacker&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/the-origin-of-hacker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everytime the media carries a sensationalist story about &#8220;hackers&#8221; committing cybercrimes there&#8217;s always an uproar among geeks about the misappropriation of the word &#8220;hacker&#8221;. Sadly it&#8217;s the geeks who are mistaken and not for once the media.
A few years ago  Fred Shapiro tracked down the earliest known reference to computer hackers:
1963 The Tech (MIT [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The New Hacker's Dictionary</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Intelligent Design for Idiots</media:title>
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		<title>Studying for Job Interviews isn&#8217;t cheating</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/studying-for-job-interviews-isnt-cheating/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/studying-for-job-interviews-isnt-cheating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[job interviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Teacher: Does anyone know why breaking mirrors is bad luck ?
Boy 1: [long boring in-depth explanation]
Teacher: Well done that&#8217;s exactly right have some merit points
Boy 2: That&#8217;s not fair, he&#8217;s cheating, he&#8217;s been reading up on it.
Teacher: That&#8217;s not cheating, that&#8217;s the point of school
Some of the respondants to my earlier posts on interviewing seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who (Doesn&#8217;t) Recruit the Best Computer Science graduates?</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2008/03/26/who-doesnt-recruit-the-best-computer-science-graduates/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2008/03/26/who-doesnt-recruit-the-best-computer-science-graduates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recruitment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While doing some research on how software companies recruit new graduates I came up with a strategy to break firms into separate categories depending on which universities they targeted for recruitment. The results of this research threw up an interesting anomaly - while in general it followed the pattern one might expect (&#8221;high-prestige&#8221; technical firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruitment and the Mythical Year of Experience</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/12/06/recruitment-and-the-mythical-year-of-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/12/06/recruitment-and-the-mythical-year-of-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recruitment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to recruitment the basic unit of measurement for ability is &#8220;years of  experience&#8221; - this is something that many developers very vocally consider inappropriate, often due to the amount of experience being requested seeming excessive. However if you consider it from the viewpoint of the company hiring, it does make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Software Development Books of 2007</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/11/30/the-best-software-development-books-of-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/11/30/the-best-software-development-books-of-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[This list is just based upon my personal opinion and therefore only includes the books I've read. Any suggestions for books I've missed are welcome. All of the books below were published in 2007]
1) Code Craft by Peter Goodliffe
This is the book every compsci student should read before starting life as a professional developer. It [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Code Craft</media:title>
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		<title>The Worst C Example Ever</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/21/the-worst-c-example-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/21/the-worst-c-example-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Example:
strcpy(str, getpass("Enter password: ")); 
The first time I saw this I was shocked at how many problems this tiny example of code has (there&#8217;s a list of problems further on - if you want to try and figure out the problems yourself try to write a working getpass() function based upon this caller).
To put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to pick a good Computer Science degree</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/16/how-to-pick-a-good-computer-science-degree/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/16/how-to-pick-a-good-computer-science-degree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 23:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a scathing article by a former Computer Science professor  from the University of Leeds  attacking his former department for &#8220;dumbing down&#8221; their curriculum. In the discussion on reddit that followed the question was raised about which universities still have good compsci departments.
I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d try to answer that indirectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programming Knowledge versus Programming Ability</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/16/programming-knowledge-versus-programming-ability/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/05/16/programming-knowledge-versus-programming-ability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 07:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason the single most common type of question on &#8220;programming language&#8221; exams seems to be of the form:
Which of the following are invalid variable names in Java?

 $char
1MyNumber
case
_int

(paraphrased from SCJP Exam for J2SE)
Imagine what a similar question might be in a football test:
Which of the following would result in a direct free  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Bill Gates say the 640k line ?</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/02/20/did-bill-gates-say-the-640k-line/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/02/20/did-bill-gates-say-the-640k-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;640K ought to be enough for anybody.&#8221; -Bill Gates (1981)
One of the most quoted lines of the computer era.  Certainly the most quoted line attributed to the Microsoft founder.
However it is only &#8220;attributed&#8221; as in 1996 Bill decided to publically deny it in an interview:
 INTERVIEWER I read in a newspaper that in 1981 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding</title>
		<link>http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/</link>
		<comments>http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tickletux</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On occasion you meet a developer who seems like a solid programmer.  They know their theory, they know their language. They can have a reasonable conversation about programming. But once it comes down to actually producing code they just don&#8217;t seem to be able to do it well.
You would probably think they&#8217;re a good [...]]]></description>
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