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One thing I believe was true in the COBOL+JCL world of the 1980s is that you couldn't write a program that would read the name of a file, and then open that file. All files to be a…

I wrote about a failed attempt to migrate from Evernote to Google Docs in https://jlforrest.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/an-unsuccessful-e... . I eventually just migrated to OneNote an…

I was part of the Postgres Research Group at UC Berkeley from 1991 to ~1995, working directly for Mike Stonebraker. To be honest, I didn't do any of the research work behind it, al…

Years ago I worked in the VAX/VMS development group at Sybase where SQLServer originated. SQLServer was basically an SQL interpreter consisting of several layers of loops. The inne…

Mike Stonebraker and others are working on an OS that is based on a database. Take a look at https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p21-skiadopoulos.pdf

I once interviewed at a startup. They asked all kinds of questions, technical and other, which was fine. They made me an offer, which I accepted. Then, I received the following: "A…

Anything that Ken Shirriff writes ( http://www.righto.com/ ) is excellent. He's a UC Berkeley EE/CS PhD who likes to restore and reverse engineer interesting hardware. His writing …

One thing I recommend is making sure the English native speakers you talk to know that you want to improve your accent. Make them realize that you would welcome their corrections a…

Funny you should mention this. I once worked at a startup that stored lots of remote sensing data. Their strategy was to put it on a Synology. When the Synology filled up, they bou…

This was a while ago, but Borland's Turbo languages were revolutionary.

The first thing to do is to always be listening to people speaking English. Try to be aware of how they pronounce things and compare them to how you do it. Be aware of little thing…

The first thing to do is to always be listening to people speaking English. Try to be aware of how they pronounce things and compare them to how you do it. Be aware of little thing…