Source code to identify user through browser?

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:18:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: Source code to identify user through browser?
> From: rustompmody at gmail.com
[...]
> > What do you mean by user?
> 
> Ha! Nice question.  Not in direct answer but here's E.W Dijkstra
> defining 'user':
> 
> [from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html
> ]
> ----------------------------
> The computer “user” isn’t a real person of flesh and blood, with
> passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure, and not a very
> pleasant one either. A kind of mongrel with money but without taste,
> an ugly caricature that is very uninspiring to work for. He is, as a
> matter of fact, such an uninspiring idiot that his stupidity alone is
> a sufficient explanation for the ugliness of most computer systems.
> And oh! Is he uneducated! That is perhaps his most depressing
> characteristic. He is equally education-resistant as another equally
> mythical bore, “the average programmer”, whose solid stupidity is the
> greatest barrier to progress in programming. It is a sad thought that
> large sections of computing science are effectively paralyzed by the
> narrow-mindedness and other grotesque limitations with which a poor
> literature has endowed these influential mythical figures. (Computing
> science is not unique in inventing such paralyzing caricatures:
> universities all over the world are threatened by the invention of
> “the average student”, scientific publishing is severely hampered by
> the invention of “the innocent reader” and even “the poor reader”!)

Didn't know he was such a humorist! lol

Although I prefer when he's serious:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1094.html

 		 	   		  
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