There was a significant drop in birthrates in the 1920s because millions of the men who would have fathered those children were dead.
Group of people == team because all report to same manager. Manager in charge of multiple different projects because "success in organisation" == "number of people managed" regardless of whether they are being managed…
Lots of people here seem very upset at the idea that someone could write their memoires at thirty. While it wouldn't be something for me (either to do or to read), I can think of lots of reasons for doing it which would…
I've been working in IT for 30 odd years, 24 entirely office based, 6 some combination of hybrid and home, and in my view the argument that innovation and creativity are uniquely fostered by interactions in the office…
There's a good discussion of this at https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold.... It starts off by suggesting that it's all about how COBOL's superiority stems from having support for Binary Code…
It’s easy to look at this article, see assertions which are absolutely the opposite of ones personal experience and conclude that the author is an idiot. For example, I almost entirely reject the idea that there is…
The idea of the vomit draft works for narrative text because it's aimed at human consumers and humans are very adaptable when it comes to accepting input. We can absorb a whole bunch of incoherent, inconsistent content…
I recently had to install a copy of Windows 10 Home onto one of my spare laptops, and there are at two things that hit the "stupidly intrusive and annoying" buttons. One: moving the mouse around on the task bar will…
Becoming a "good writer", like becoming a good anything, is a matter of practice and study, of learning to use the tools which language provides. The ability to construct well-formed long sentences is one such tool. It…
Having had a range of early programming experiences, including BASIC and assembler on a ZX Spectrum,Pascal on an ICL mini and PL/1 on an IBM Mainframe,nothing I had seen or worked with up until that point came close to…
First job, support technician on a years work experience from college. That was the year the great storm brought down trees and power cables over half of southern England. The office where I was working was without…
The inverse of this is also useful: // Dear maintainer, // The code which follows was hacked together under desperate pressure. // It's not smart. // It's not doing anything really subtle. // It's the only thing we…
There's a much quoted aphorism with regard to getting feed back on fiction: "If five people tell you there's a problem, they're almost certainly right. If they tell you how to fix it they're almost certainly wrong."…
That only works if the user of the software has freedom of choice over the software they use. For the majority of commercial software sales that is not the case. Commercial software is overwhelmingly brought by…
There was a significant drop in birthrates in the 1920s because millions of the men who would have fathered those children were dead.
Group of people == team because all report to same manager. Manager in charge of multiple different projects because "success in organisation" == "number of people managed" regardless of whether they are being managed…
Lots of people here seem very upset at the idea that someone could write their memoires at thirty. While it wouldn't be something for me (either to do or to read), I can think of lots of reasons for doing it which would…
I've been working in IT for 30 odd years, 24 entirely office based, 6 some combination of hybrid and home, and in my view the argument that innovation and creativity are uniquely fostered by interactions in the office…
There's a good discussion of this at https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold.... It starts off by suggesting that it's all about how COBOL's superiority stems from having support for Binary Code…
It’s easy to look at this article, see assertions which are absolutely the opposite of ones personal experience and conclude that the author is an idiot. For example, I almost entirely reject the idea that there is…
The idea of the vomit draft works for narrative text because it's aimed at human consumers and humans are very adaptable when it comes to accepting input. We can absorb a whole bunch of incoherent, inconsistent content…
I recently had to install a copy of Windows 10 Home onto one of my spare laptops, and there are at two things that hit the "stupidly intrusive and annoying" buttons. One: moving the mouse around on the task bar will…
Becoming a "good writer", like becoming a good anything, is a matter of practice and study, of learning to use the tools which language provides. The ability to construct well-formed long sentences is one such tool. It…
Having had a range of early programming experiences, including BASIC and assembler on a ZX Spectrum,Pascal on an ICL mini and PL/1 on an IBM Mainframe,nothing I had seen or worked with up until that point came close to…
First job, support technician on a years work experience from college. That was the year the great storm brought down trees and power cables over half of southern England. The office where I was working was without…
The inverse of this is also useful: // Dear maintainer, // The code which follows was hacked together under desperate pressure. // It's not smart. // It's not doing anything really subtle. // It's the only thing we…
There's a much quoted aphorism with regard to getting feed back on fiction: "If five people tell you there's a problem, they're almost certainly right. If they tell you how to fix it they're almost certainly wrong."…
That only works if the user of the software has freedom of choice over the software they use. For the majority of commercial software sales that is not the case. Commercial software is overwhelmingly brought by…