Sean has a reputation for a take on technology that can seem to be "out of left field," but is guaranteed to get you thinking. Sometimes contrarian, always insightful, he offers a unique perspective on the practice of programming and on technology in general.
There is a lot of talk these days about regulation, especially the kind intended to control the activities of financial organizations. I have a big problem with regulation.
We live in interesting economic times. I could also say that we live in interesting technological times but that is always true so it doesn't need to be explicitly spelled out. The worlds of economics and technology are deeply inter-twingled of course and getting more so with every passing year.
Almost all software - regardless of its function in life - involves using computer code to operate on data. Sometimes (rarely) there is no data at all. Sometimes (not so rarely these days) the data is, itself, code.
All around me I see tech savvy kids that are growing up as brand consumers...What will the world of branding be like when these kids get old enough and empowered enough to raise purchase orders for the enterprise IT systems?
Knowing Java is not knowing much. Knowing C is not knowing much. Same for Javascript ECMA 262. The same is true for many other languages. Not all of them, but many of them.
I am having an increasing number of "all spam downloads" on my computer. I download e-mail, my spam filters tag the spam, it gets
trashed and my inbox ends up completely empty. 100% futile e-mail downloads. Wow.
I am bit slow between the ears sometimes. Sometimes things take a long time to sink in and when they do, I have a "duh!" moment. I had one recently in an outlet of well known, computer chain store. I wandered up the printer aisle marvelling at the inventiveness of the printer manufacturers in conjuring up so many mutually incompatible containers that all serve to delivery streams of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. Such diversity in a such a small amount of shelf space.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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