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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.

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Animal Experimentation and Simulation

Category: Bad Software

In my post yesterday, I briefly mentioned the problem with simulations as a replacement for animal testing. But I've gotten a couple of self-righteous emails from people criticizing that: they've all argued that given the quantity of computational resources...

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The Return of the Compression Idiot

Category: bad math

Remember a while back, I wrote about a crackpot who pestered me both about converting to Christianity, and his wonderful, miraculous compression system? He claimed to be able to repeatedly compress any file, making it smaller each time. Well,...

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I Get Mail: Iterative Compression

Category: bad math

Like a lot of other bloggers, I often get annoying email from people. This week, I've been dealing with a particularly annoying jerk, who's been bothering me for multiple reasons. First, he wants me to "lay off" the Christians...

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The Z2K9 Problem

Category: Bad Software

I've been getting a lot of emails asking about the so-called "Z2K9" problem. For those who haven't heard, the software on a particular model of Microsoft's Zune music player froze up on New Year's eve, because of a bug....

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The Excel 65,535=100,000 Bug

Category: Bad Software

I've been getting a lot of requests from people to talk about the recent Excel bug. For those of you who haven't heard about this, in Excel 2007, floating point calculations that should result in a number very, very...

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Granville Sewell: Genius or Liar?

Category: intelligent design

As of 2/24/2008, Sewell has just responded to this, pretending that he just noticed it. To make discussions easier to follow, I have responded with a new post here, and I would appreciate it if comments could be posted there,...

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Bad Software Design: Getting the Level Wrong

Category: Bad Software

I came across a link to an excellent article that provides an example of one of my professional bugaboos: the truly awful way that we often design software in terms of how the implementer thinks of it, instead of...

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