@bluejekyll .. A very well thought out piece, which begs the question as to why it was down voted.
"Within 10s of the forward stick input, the A330 had reached a 17˚ nose-down attitude. Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later" What exactly did this 'automatic high-speed protection system '…
> Not sure what your comment has to do with mine. Someone doesn't agree with your comment, but rather than come back with a refutation they voted you down instead :) And someone else don't agree with my comment ..…
I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I too had…
"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers" You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer. http://bertdohmen.com/hft-algo-computers-crash-fx-markets/
'What Killed the Linux Desktop' by Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft Research: 'Each year Microsoft Research hosts hundreds of influential speakers from around the world including leading scientists, renowned experts in technology, book authors, and leading academics and makes…
> Identity politics are garbage. I agree, stand-by to be down-voted into oblivion. Besides journalists should report the news instead of being the news or creating non-issues as in a lot of cases. I call it the…
"Was Snowden a Russian Agent?" .. no, he was an outside contractor with a conscience, illustrating the perils of outsourcing your spying. Why an IT functionary would need access to the raw files to do his job just…
Pardon my confusion, but I thought that some time back Microsoft abandoned the effort to write all their stuff in managed code under .NET ..
"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable." No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has…
@bluejekyll .. A very well thought out piece, which begs the question as to why it was down voted.
"Within 10s of the forward stick input, the A330 had reached a 17˚ nose-down attitude. Its automatic high-speed protection system was triggered 3s later" What exactly did this 'automatic high-speed protection system '…
> Not sure what your comment has to do with mine. Someone doesn't agree with your comment, but rather than come back with a refutation they voted you down instead :) And someone else don't agree with my comment ..…
I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I too had…
"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers" You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer. http://bertdohmen.com/hft-algo-computers-crash-fx-markets/
'What Killed the Linux Desktop' by Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft Research: 'Each year Microsoft Research hosts hundreds of influential speakers from around the world including leading scientists, renowned experts in technology, book authors, and leading academics and makes…
> Identity politics are garbage. I agree, stand-by to be down-voted into oblivion. Besides journalists should report the news instead of being the news or creating non-issues as in a lot of cases. I call it the…
"Was Snowden a Russian Agent?" .. no, he was an outside contractor with a conscience, illustrating the perils of outsourcing your spying. Why an IT functionary would need access to the raw files to do his job just…
Pardon my confusion, but I thought that some time back Microsoft abandoned the effort to write all their stuff in managed code under .NET ..
"there is a challenge and responsibility to build products in a way that serves and supports customers who are the most vulnerable." No product is going to cure people of anything and certainly no commercial company has…