28th December 2011, 1 min read

My favorite posts from 2011

January:

• Innovating without permission
• Not even eventually consistent

February:

• Taking scientific publishing to the next level
• Ten things Computer Science tells us about bureaucrats

March:

• Know the biases of your operating system
• Breaking news: HTML+CSS is Turing complete
  

April:

• How information technology is really built

May:

• Automation will make you obsolete, no matter who you are
  
• The perils of filter-then-publish
  
• Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual?
  

June:

• Why I still program
  
• The language interpreters are the new machines
  

July:

• The myth of the unavoidable specialization
  

August:

• The Web is killing database systems

September:

• Science is self-regulatory… really?
  
• Emerging knowledge is a private business
  
• You think that users are faceless objects? You are obsolete!
  

October:

• Why aren’t we getting richer? The scarring tissue theory
  
• It is not where you work, but who you work with
  
• How database design fails us, and what to do about it
  

November:

• Are Relational Databases good for anything anymore?
  

December:

• Dealing with harsh criticism