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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-07-17
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General Tech • [19 items]
Artificial Intelligence
Computers aren't "intelligent". But you can program them to learn patterns from data, in pretty limited ways.
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Balanced tech company
What does it take to have a well-balanced (well run) company? Getting the balances between competing factions right.
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Beta
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta... what is a beta version anyways? It's a late development release, but pre-final.
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Dotcom Bubble
The Internet was not a flash in the pan, and changed the Global Economy.
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Ergonomics
Ergonomics is the study of people's efficiency in their working environment.
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FUD
FUD means "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", it was used by big companies to scare users away from small companies.
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Female Geeks
Why are there so few female geeks? Sexism is a part of life.
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Information Age
I first wrote this in the early 80's. The idea is the competing realities of infinite storage vs infinite bandwidth.
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Journaling
Journaling is creating logs of what you're doing, so that you can reverse or recreate things, using those logs.
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Legacy Kills
Legacy is being haunted by the past. Sometimes great, always painful, a millstone to drag around and hold you back
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Origins of the Internet
The Internet was not created by DARPA (they created a protocol), but the technoligies are based on customer needs.
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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.
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Quality Assurance
I spent a lifetime doing Software Quality Assurance one summer. My appreciation for what they do has remained.
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Spam
Why are unsolicited emails called spam? A Monty Python skit where every breakfast came with spam (and a song).
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Speed and Performance
Speed and Performance: how they differ, and what are the effects on the whole system? The answers may surprise you.
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Throughput and Latency
Speed is relative. What kind of speed are you talking about? There are a few aspects to speed on a computer.
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Wetware
I was asked about is what is holding technology back the most. The answer was easy, "Wetware (People)".
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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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Main Page
The root of all evil... and the home page for this website.
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Tech
Technology: Organizations, Reviews, People
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