This is part of the story and this is interesting, but as both an employer of technical workers and a technical worker myself it doesn’t seem so simple to me. I have certainly seen large numbers of entitled technical workers
Updated Dijkstra vs Perlis (really, DeMillo)
See below.
Costs of not building security into the system
No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader’s page)
Supercomputing and mathematica
The last time I went to a “Supercomputing” conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly
Dijkstra versus Perlis (updated)
Dijkstra wrote: He [Perlis] published a very obnoxious paper arguing against a mathematical approach to programming cite The paper by De Millo, Lipton and Perlis starts as follows: Many people have argued that computer programming should strive to become more like mathematics.
Most influential software company in America – and maybe the world
Voter Activation Network.
FSMLabs move to New Zealand is postponed indefinitely
Thanks to Ohioans. (and Virginians, Floridians, Iowans, … ). phew.