Irina's Blog

IT professional in Estonia in 2017 seems to be in high demand. Following skills and qualities are being in demand from IT professionals these days: - Continuously improving his/her skills and knowledge, is willing to learn. This skill is important in any area, but especially in technology, where development happens at a very fast pace. IT professional should have a will and interest in continuously learning innovations in the field in order to remain a professional. - Is highly proficient in one of the programming languages, however is also aware and knowledgeable in other big programming languages. Diversifying knowledge and experience and being overall savvy in all sort of IT topics is a feature of a high level IT professional. - Is experienced on the job, or has a few years experience in the field. As for any professional in any field, university degree or theoretical knowledge is not enough to be deemed a professional and succeed on the job. However having a university degr...

Copyleft (the play of words made from copyright) is a way of making a programm, distributing it for free and requiring all other versions, modifications and programs built on top be free in the future. Free distributed software actually does not mean, that it has no copyright. It actually is copyrighted but its owner gives way for the free distribution and redistribution. The concept of copyleft is not only used in software but also for example in arts, an example would be creative commons project. There are different types of copyleft licenses which may differ in one or all of the following terms: 1. Strength Essentially means that with the weaker license not all the derivative work will have to be handled as per the license (example: GNU C library), while with the stronger licence larger extent of derivative work will have to comply with the copyleft license terms (example: GNU general public license). 2. Coverage of the work The difference here is the extent to which the ...

If you want to have a music file or a film, or a photograph downloaded to your laptop nowadays, unless the file author has authorized a free download, you need to pay for obtaining that file, if you would like to do it legally. Of course sharing your legally obtained file with others for free online is not allowed, as this would be a copyright law infringement. As pinpointed in the article  "The case for copyright", the current copyright law should be addressed and changed in order to allow free non-commercial sharing, shorter commercial monopoly, free sampling and ban of DMR(technologies that restrict consumers ability to download and share digital files). Surely discussion of authorizing above proposals is a heated debate, as there are those who are strongly for and those who are strongly against it. Authorizing above proposals does make sense as well as the reasoning behind those proposals. People have been sharing things for centuries and restricting the digital sha...

To be entirely honest, I have spent a good amount of time thinking over my internet life, Virginia Shea laws and real-life examples. In a way one of the laws "Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life" is the one where I could think of examples from my life, however these examples would probably not make for a very exciting blog article. The thing is, I am generally rather an introverted person, an observer, I am generally listening more than speaking and this is exactly the way I behave online as well as in real life. Taking verbal battles on internet as an example, I take these on just as I take on the real life battles. In majority of cases there are people out there, that are very prone to share their opinions. They tend to be quick to express it and the thing about it, is that majority of comments can be categorized into 2-3 categories. There is always a supporter, an opposer and a guy in the middle. While the battle online goe...