Systems software technology and business
This is part of the story and this is interesting, but as both an employer of technical workers and a technical worker myself it doesn’t seem so simple to me. I have certainly seen large numbers of entitled technical workers who simply refuse to learn anything new and are neither able to take initiative or [...]
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No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader’s page)
The last time I went to a “Supercomputing” conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly sneered at by IBMs Operating System Gurus and were walking away, somewhat crestfallen, when Gray [...]
Here’s Dijkstra
He [Perlis] published a very obnoxious paper arguing against a mathematical approach to programming cite
Here’s the paper by De Millo, Lipton and Perlis. It starts as follows:
Many people have argued that computer programming should strive to become more like mathematics. Maybe so, but not in the way they seem to think. The aim of [...]
Voter Activation Network.
Thanks to Ohioans. (and Virginians, Floridians, Iowans, … ). phew.