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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-07-17

General Tech • [19 items]

Artificial Intelligence
Computers aren't "intelligent". But you can program them to learn patterns from data, in pretty limited ways.

Balanced tech company
What does it take to have a well-balanced (well run) company? Getting the balances between competing factions right.

Beta
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta... what is a beta version anyways? It's a late development release, but pre-final.

Dotcom Bubble
The Internet was not a flash in the pan, and changed the Global Economy.

Ergonomics
Ergonomics is the study of people's efficiency in their working environment.

FUD
FUD means "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", it was used by big companies to scare users away from small companies.

Female Geeks
Why are there so few female geeks? Sexism is a part of life.

Hollywood Hackers versus real life
I have some credentials, and enough experience to know that Hollywood doesn't know shit about computer security.

Information Age
I first wrote this in the early 80's. The idea is the competing realities of infinite storage vs infinite bandwidth.

Journaling
Journaling is creating logs of what you're doing, so that you can reverse or recreate things, using those logs.

Legacy Kills
Legacy is being haunted by the past. Sometimes great, always painful, a millstone to drag around and hold you back

Origins of the Internet
The Internet was not created by DARPA (they created a protocol), but the technoligies are based on customer needs.

PCs 20 year anniversary
The media claimed last week (2002) was the 20 years anniversary of the "PC"... but the truth is more expansive than that.

Quality Assurance
I spent a lifetime doing Software Quality Assurance one summer. My appreciation for what they do has remained.

Spam
Why are unsolicited emails called spam? A Monty Python skit where every breakfast came with spam (and a song).

Speed and Performance
Speed and Performance: how they differ, and what are the effects on the whole system? The answers may surprise you.

Throughput and Latency
Speed is relative. What kind of speed are you talking about? There are a few aspects to speed on a computer.

Wetware
I was asked about is what is holding technology back the most. The answer was easy, "Wetware (People)".

Why is software so buggy?
Why are programs so buggy? They're not bugs, they're undocumented features... sorry, that's an old programmer joke.

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