Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Why Programmers Work At Night

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    A popular saying goes that programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights.  Some earlier, some later.  A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get…

  • ePaper display

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    Why does the ePaper display flash?  Why don’t they just XOR the old screen and the new screen and do a BitBLT?  Or am I a moron?

  • Feature bloat

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    I was reading a white paper on Cloud Computing in Public Safety from InterAct yesterday, and on penultimate page was this graphic.  What an excellent way to demonstrate feature bloat.

  • Bizarre view of the world

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    This is like the early 19th Century view of the universe as a watch, the same argument that everyone uses to justify the use of Excel for every task.  If all you have is a hammer, then everything is a nail.5. Every employee is a project managerProject management means having a mindset of systematic planning,…

  • Well the end of the world was a bust

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    I was hoping that at least something would happen this time, but I guess the Mayan’s calendar ending on 21-December-2012 is just the same problem as the Clipper development language that only recognized dates until 31-December-2999 (God help us if those systems are still running then).  I’m sure that the *nix date has some finite…

  • The Tyranny of the Urgent

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    Patience is a virtue, and haste makes waste. While we sometimes need to hurry up and react to the unexpected, management by crisis and ever-present emergencies show an inability to plan, and that’s bad — very bad.James CoplienRead more at the IEEE Computer Society

  • Ten hard truths IT must learn to accept

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    The BYOD revolution is here to stayYou’ve lost control over how your company uses technologyYou will always have downtimeYour systems will never be fully compliantThe cloud won’t fix everything (and may even break stuff)You will never have enough hands on deckYour network has already been compromisedYour company’s deepest secrets are only a tweet awayYour users…