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Ages ago, when secretaries (usually female) were still common in offices, my boss told me "learn the names of all of the secretaries and say hello every time you see them. If they …

Apps that create false data to crash advertising algorithms. Random GPS locations, random product interests, random web site visits, random follows and likes. Like how SEO poisons …

Triplebyte developed an online assessment technology for programmers. The company was acquired by Karat. Their website has claims of enormous improvements to the hiring process. Pr…

Advertising cost is added to the product price. In order to generate one trillion dollars in advertising revenue, there would have to be about 20 trillion more in product spend. Ci…

2001: a Space Odyssey. I saw it in the theater in 70mm when it was released in 1968. It totally blew me away. A majestic vision of the future. Thirty three years from now (1968) th…

Ages ago, the Digital Equipment VAX had a hardware hack where a null pointer (value is 0) would return a 0 when de-referenced. Which is the null character, the end of a string. So …

Ages ago, before even dumb terminals, we were programming on punched cards, batch compiling, and printing on a line printer. For some reason, this printer supported control G (the …

Google makes tons of money each quarter, but cancels projects / products, and lays off people. That does not improve moral. Why should I work my ass off and then my project is canc…

But what language is the program written in? It would have to include all of the possible data types and formats, and include all possible operations with the correct semantics.

Their climate calculations do not include the environmental costs of commuting and return to office mandates. There would be less pollution if no employee commuted and there is no …

The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks. The examples are old, but the wisdom remains. Particularly the chapter (and CACM article) No Silver Bullet-- Essence and Accident in Sof…

System.out.println("Hello World");

Convince me that an AI Agent won't piss off the customer.

Some of his books are available in pdf on his website: https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/gbvita.htm I used Computer Structures:Readings and Examples in an architecture class, an…

There are a bunch of places in Silicon Valley. For example: https://www.abettersource.com/ Search for used office furniture. There are also auctions when a company closes down: For…

They are restricting the solutions by encapsulating each problem with boundaries. 1. Create remote work technology that is better than open plan workplaces. 2. Create small self-dr…

There is a place in SF called luma that sponsors many such events. I have never been, don't know if it is a waste of time or not. https://lu.ma/sf

1. Winnie the Pooh to kids on their third or fourth or fifth birthday. 2. The Mythical Man Month to non-tech bosses. 3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to girlfriends (it's a test). 4…

Years ago, I ran a German article about an ex-vice president turned environmentalist through Google Translate. In the result his name was Aluminum Gore.

Is the generated code correct? Was the training input code correct? Did the AI understand what you were asking? Did you specify the problem correctly, with all of the boundary cond…

Install bollards in the yard in the path of the cars. These are vertical steel pipes set in concrete and filled with concrete. Paint them bright yellow. Correctly installed, they w…

Move to San Francisco, or Silicon Valley and start networking: subscribe to techstars silicon valley sf bay area newsletter. Triplebyte had online tests and phone interviews, now o…

I tried to read the article, but received a popup in the face asking for a subscription. I guess the answer is, "Yea, a media extinction event has already happened".

You need to be able to generate any machine instruction. like clear the cache, turn interrupts off and on, access the hardware bits on the I/O cards, access privileged instructions…

Want to prohibit links to sites with paywalls.