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Jonathan_Swift

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About Jonathan_Swift

I am to Solve what I at first called, then referred to but now denote as The Software Problem:

   Solving the Software Problem:
   a Taxonomy of Error
   http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-problem/



    Software failure is fundamentally a human problem, not a technical one.

    Purely technical solutions fail to effect truly meaningful and lasting change.

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    We used to crowdsource flashmobds over a BSD 3.5 or so PDP-11 at the University of California Santa Cruz. It had what we would now regard as quite primitive, but really was quite a…

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    YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND. I at first thought that the Oligarchs were organized crime kingpins. Much of the former Communist world's grief and the Capitalist world's challenge is tha…

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    Я казах! http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ya-kazakh/ (There is an Apache configuration error in the character encoding of that page. I'll fix it Real Soon Now.) We make make no sense to…

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    Heh. Back around the Summer of 1998, while my C++ Mac OS GUI was going along well, my client flatly refused to ask his own staff to QA my deliverables. With each delivery, I would …

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    From TFA: "It wasn't because I was insane and so could not be the father of her children. It was because of who she regarded as responsible for my insanity: a certain specific pers…

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    Perhaps it was just an innocent mistake? Off By One? Storing a long result into a short? Even so, a Forensic Accountant would have caught the problem well over a year ago.

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    32-Bit PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger Macintoshes are still in quite common use. My Mom has a G4 iMac, her sister has a G3 iBook. They are both in mint condition; neither has any reason at…

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    The author's thesis was quite intuitively illustrated by the Google AdSense "Heat Map", which depicted a schematic of your typical web page, with a header, navigation bars down bot…

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    All Is Not As It First Appears.

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    Among the reasons I work as a coder rather than a Physicist is that coding accomodates my Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in a way that Academia does not. Whenever I go back …

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    I have posted about 28 links on my Seattle page, but I have about 120 more in an OpenOffice spreadsheet. However I haven't been getting much sleep at all the least three weeks to I…

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    Actually I would far rather be a Physics PhD, but academia does not accomodate my mental illness of Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in the way self-employed Software Consulti…

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    That's what I was told was - nine months ago - the going rate for W-2 Senior Software Engineers in Portland and Seattle. I expect it's a lot more than that in The Valley, and may b…