Confessions of an expert 2012-05-03T15:43:17+03:00 Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog Good software doesn't have past Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2012/05/index.html#e2012-05-03T15_43_17.txt 2012-05-03T15:43:17+03:00 2012-05-03T15:43:17+03:00 2012-05-03T15:43:17+03:00 Good software:
  • is young,
  • is slim,
  • doesn't say no,
  • knows what is supposed to do,
  • makes me look good and
  • doesn't have a past!

]]> Free will Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2011/06/index.html#e2011-06-12T14_58_23.txt 2011-06-12T14:58:23+03:00 2011-06-12T14:58:23+03:00 2011-06-12T14:58:23+03:00 Destiny comes from history and chance comes from future.
If your future is guided by your destiny, you have no chance in future.

]]> I C Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2011/05/index.html#e2011-05-23T22_25_57.txt 2011-05-23T22:25:57+03:00 2011-05-23T22:25:57+03:00 2011-05-23T22:25:57+03:00 Default is reached by default. Well that is obvious, but when you have defaulted? This meaning that you have reach self-evidence and you are observer not a designer.

If you are a fatalist or a modernist, the designers task is to pre see and define something that will be later on self-evident. Maximium of this is a faith of universal progress, a singular path of development, a natural order of things. You can only default.

If you are a post-modernist, the designers task is to see the possibilities present so that anything can be possbile. Minimum of this is a possibility.

So what can U C?

]]> Noisence Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2011/04/index.html#e2011-04-30T15_17_39.txt 2011-04-30T15:17:39+03:00 2011-04-30T15:17:39+03:00 2011-04-30T15:17:39+03:00 NanoBlogger Help Noice doesn't lie. It is the absolut truth.

I try to transmit a lie called x.
My lie is affeted by noise and y emerges.
y is recieved by reciever.

I transmitted no truth in x, but the reciever can interpet the truth from the y.

I try to transmit a truth called x.
My lie is affeted by noise and y emerges.
y is recieved by reciever.

I transmitted a truth in x and the reciever can interpet the truth from the y.

Lie must be designed. Noice is not designed, but it exists, so it is the absolut truth.

]]> Plato vs. Aristotle Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/09/index.html#e2010-09-29T11_48_24.txt 2010-09-29T11:48:24+03:00 2010-09-29T11:48:24+03:00 2010-09-29T11:48:24+03:00 In this fight Plato wins in theory, but Aristotle in actuality.

There is no internet. There is no law. There is no abstraction that can be. Many things, that we for our convenience call into being, are not. We must remember this or we lose the sanity of our endavour.

RFC1925 addresses this in its 1st rule for networking "(1) It Has To Work." Abstractions are only usable as long as they actualise output.

]]> Who's porblem? Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/06/index.html#e2010-06-24T12_10_16.txt 2010-06-24T12:10:16+03:00 2010-06-24T12:10:16+03:00 2010-06-24T12:10:16+03:00 Problems are valuable because they can be turned into solutions and widely applicable solutions are innovations. Problem of problems is that efficient planing of problem emergence is close to oxymoron. When no problems emerge on operations there is no addtional value created and the whole process should be automated.

Risk management could be re-engineered to a Problem emergence planing, but the precieved best-practises are focused on working into a opposite direction. Risk management is seen more as a ensurance sense (every risk that actualises is a cost) and not as a financial sense (every risk that actualises is just movement within error margin +/-). In the ensurance paradigm who would buy other entities risks for them selves, but in the finance paradigm risk is the only thing worth buying as any other value should have been actualised already.

]]> Technology is Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/06/index.html#e2010-06-16T17_44_17.txt 2010-06-16T17:44:17+03:00 2010-06-16T17:44:17+03:00 2010-06-16T17:44:17+03:00 Technology = ((Phenomena + Applicability) * User_Base) / Cost_of_Adaptation

]]> art of innovation Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/06/index.html#e2010-06-02T11_59_46.txt 2010-06-02T11:59:46+03:00 2010-06-02T11:59:46+03:00 2010-06-02T11:59:46+03:00 Artist is a person who has something to say and a way to say it.

Innovator is a person who has a problem and some means to solve it.

Social innovation needs social problems to be innovations?

]]> Jargon is not a TLA Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/04/index.html#e2010-04-21T16_21_33.txt 2010-04-21T16:21:33+03:00 2010-04-21T16:21:33+03:00 2010-04-21T16:21:33+03:00 There are many kinds of Marketing Materials

I like go on vendor sites to Products page and there not to Features but to Specifications. I have a hint on what the TLAs are about and the jargon on features seems redundant. Still to be honest I can't say how those specifications are verified and so I would be just as informed, if would read through the Features page.

Most likely we all gravitate to what is familiar to us. Those who like TLAs go to them. TLA it self carries little information and it's interpretation is highly contextual. So eventual Specifications page can more reflect my hopes than a Features page so I probably make less factual informed purchase decisions than non TLA declined.

But is the fact that I would make faster decisions the edge that actually would make me some what more expert.

]]> Known, Proven, Trusted Lari Korpi http://larry.hlan.net/blog/archives/2010/04/index.html#e2010-04-18T15_55_14.txt 2010-04-18T15:55:14+03:00 2010-04-18T15:55:14+03:00 2010-04-18T15:55:14+03:00 You establish Trust by Proving you Knowledge.
You Prove your Knowledge by implementation.
You get to implement if you are Trusted.

There are two ways to break in to this cycle:

  • discredit someone who is in and offer your self as replacement
  • co-operate with someone who will move on and recommend you as replacement.

Machiavelli in Prince asks: Is it better to be feared or loved?
The conclusion is that not everyone will ever love their Prince, but everyone can fear him. How have you made your moves?

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