In 1907, children embraced the teddy bear. Naturally, someone feared for civilization. ??A Michigan priest and other critics warned that girls choosing ted…
| The 1907 Teddy Bear Panic – YouTubeObituary for programming…
Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you …
“They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted.”
I’d never seen it like that before but that’s what it was. It’s also the joy of many computer games.
However, the internet brought stacks, frameworks, complexity, and many things that reduced the puzzle and made it more like work!
Dawn…
Azure…
Ten years ago I wrote this…
OK. I don’t think that I was particularly original but I was right! Today Azure is 30% of the company and still growing at 40% a year.
Pompidou…
Duo Reviews…
From the reviews of I’ve seen, one thing stays with me.
This is how the Americans test the hinge. I suppose it gets points for Maker chic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDTWuL9GxY
And this is the Chinese one…
https://youtu.be/o1qc29t04GI?si=BU-CVi988wmAsyZm
Does Maker chic work for an Apple review? More seriously, this is a sign of something.
A remix of the greatest remix…
A Bowl…
Sun…
Time to De-Privatize – The American Prospect
Over the past several decades, different levels of government have contracted out basic public services. This is often far less efficient. The main cost savings occur because the private vendor often pays the workers less than the civil service counterpart.
Time to De-Privatize – The American Prospect
While I’m busy writing about things that will look odd in a hundred years. How has it taken us forty years to understand that you can’t stack margin of 10% on multiple layers of public services and expect value for money?
The maths don’t work but we insist on doing it.