Software Astrology

As The Year 2012 approaches and beliefs in its transformative significance in December intensify we would like to point out that from the number representation perspective 2012 is 7DC in hexadecimal notation and it means:

7 December Crashes

Cosmic events in that year may dramatically influence Software as well. Considering our dependence on software products Seven December Crashes in major software centers of the World may exacerbate natural disasters and impede monitoring and rescue efforts.

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Interesting observation that reinforces my belief in astrology of software:

What’s in your name? A Debugging Perspective

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The Moon represents constant change and therefore it influences computer memory. Because the Moon symbolizes fertility it also influences the direction of software execution life-cycles, for example, the creation and destruction of objects. At the Full Moon corresponding software activity also increases. Being Time keeper the Moon influences whether software crashes and hangs, the so called “software fate”. Related to water the Moon represents the Great Ocean of Bits and also represents behaviour in software occurring without creator’s will or control. Three principal phases of the Moon correlate with software life-cycle: new code, fully matured code and discarded legacy code. Changeability of the Moon corresponds to observable irrational behaviour of software and unpredictable results. Never seen the dark side of the Moon corresponds to never seen software defects. Experience with the Moon influence on computer memory provides a great vision of the inner workings of software and makes it possible to really perceive ideal non-functional requirements before they translate to their implementation.

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Opcodology /ɒpkɒˈdɒlədʒɪ/, noun

1: relationship between numbers and software behaviour. Derived from opcode and ology.

2: software codology. Derived from operation and codology (Irish slang).

Date: 21th century

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The Sun represents the inner self of software, its algorithm, its essence. “I see!” says a scientist or an engineer at the moment of insight and devises a clever algothrithm to illuminate a difficult problem. The Sun also symbolizes the outer software behaviour seen by its users which can be destructive sometimes (see my previous post, The Sun and Software).

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It’s not about Sun company but about Sun, the star. It influences people and CPU as well. Either a single CPU or a CPU bundle in a multiprocessor or a multi-core hardware can be considered as a digital analog of the Sun that influences software. A phrase “A bug shines brighter than a thousand suns” can be attributed to an explosion inside OS kernel nucleus ruining the work of hundreds of users.

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The post title is yet another definition of software astrology to help search engines to catch up with this new discipline. For other definitions see Astrology of Software post.

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The post title is another definition of software astrology to help search engines to catch up with this new discipline. Since the division between software and hardware has blurred with the advent of virtualization and mass of embedded software the notion of hardware astrology (astrology of hardware) is similar and assemble date astrology corresponds to build date astrology. To generalise, any artifact has its corresponding astrology, the so called artifact astrology (astrology of artifacts) and creation date astrology.

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Star and planet arrangement in cosmos influences organisms (including humans) and through them cosmic influence channels to written software. As a result, humans observe software defects, anomalies and features which are reflections of their own behaviour and personality traits. This is shown on the following simplified picture:

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Reprinted from http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/12/01/the-deep-meaning-of-astrology/

A bit of digression on the first winter day in Ireland. What does it mean to be meanigful as astrology? It is meaningful as Tr O(Log y):

AsTrOLogy ↔ As Tr O(Log y) ↔ As O(Log y) ↔ bound (or dominated in case of small-o notation) by Log y after some y >= y₀ or bound (or dominated in case of small-o notation) by -logy. So Astrology is bounded and dominated by Y (Why?) lowered in magnitude by Log. Bounded and dominated by the this ultimate question…

Tr is trace operation in linear algebra. Tr (a number) = a number by definition of a 1×1 matrix
O is Big O notation

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