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90s Solaris dude here .. Unix Power Tools was the book that had the most borrow rate in our office ..

Oooh, saw Andrei's name pop up and remember his books on C++ back in the day .. ran into a systems engineer a while ago that asked why during a tech review asked why some data size…

"shall" and "must"

A favorite past-time back in the day was driving at night from pub to pub along the 'back roads' (B-roads specifically in the UK) as fast as 'possible'. There were typically no str…

of course it's re-usable .. most passionate excel jockeys would agree, as long it's their VBA that gets reused

Tony Wheeler has a lot to answer for

This is not unique to SV. This is happening world over. The wealthier are buying more assets, the middle and lower classes are left paying rent to the wealthy landowners. "Gary's E…

Grandpa can help with that too

A Gattaca moment ?

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I went as a contractor (fixing a port from PDP 11/44 -> SUN 5/110) on-board a UK nuclear sub back in the 90s, and had a contractor berth in the 'bomb shop'. I slept underneath the …

Some good stuff in there, but heard most of it in earlier publications. Reading Steve McConnell's "Software Estimation" covers a bunch of it, Cone of Uncertainty etc etc. Here's wh…

I have been involved in 2 medium sized-ish (~300) software support projects for western-nation's land forces project that brought in SAFe with a fanfare. Lots of ($$) training, eve…

I was backpacking around Asia in '94 .. my connection to the rest of the world was my trusty Sony shortwave radio (ICF-SW1) .. anyone else remember those glorious days ? :)

Why are they still called phones though ? that's my point .. essentially you have a computer in your hands that happens to have an ability to make voice calls .. I was looking for …

I'm presuming that the iPhone is not being used for phone calls by the majority of today's users. What should Ive and Jobs have named it to make sense in in the 202x's and onwards …

Yeah, good call.. feel free to remove "Zoom" as you're reading. I agree, it's irrelevant in some aspects, however, i would posit he likened to the idea of Zoom for dismissing his s…

that's exactly what the remaining employees are discussing over their Wednesday evening drinkies too !

As in so many other domains, i'm disappointed but not surprised. The corporation let this douche-bag 'cool-off' and is now bringing him back to invigorate the company .. awesome ..…

I've worked on reasonably large >$100M defense programs for the last 25 years. Nearly all of them overran both time and budget constraints. They have mostly been firm-fixed price, …

A.R.S.E. Automated Remote Start Enrollment

My Sony ICF SW-1 shortwave radio. Perfect backpacking travel companion in Asia in the 90s. It just worked.

The article says that this is an "unusual architectural choice". I strongly disagree. A reference is made to an RTI publication many years ago. Realtime Innovations have been key p…