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Neat Chart on Schumpeter Cycles
Click to enlarge the chart. Pretty interesting chart. When I was old enough to be seriously looking for work, it was right around the 1990 low. It was a pretty tough time to find interesting work. You...
View ArticleGreat article on Waterfall / The Power of Open Access to Information
First, someone in the agile camp actually reads the original description on ‘Waterfall’ from 1970. Surprise – it is really really close to agile. This is a great read. Hopefully, this will end a lot of...
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Experience one of my first big computers: the ATT 3B1
A long time ago now, in the 1990 or 1991 timeframe, I bought an ATT 3B1. It was my first true Unix machine. I could tell you lots about it, but there is a Wikipedia page up for it already (the ATT...
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Rob Barton Quote
“Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.” Robert “Bob” Barton (1967)
View ArticleLisp Match
(DEF MATCH (PATTERN ASSERTION) (COND ((EQUAL PATTERN '?) T) ((AND (ATOM PATTERN) (EQUAL PATTERN ASSERTION)) T) ((ATOM PATTERN) NIL) ((ATOM ASSERTION) NIL) (T (AND (MATCH (FIRST PATTERN) (FIRST...
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More old school : DEC VT330 terminal
We have come a long way. I still had to use systems like this in the early 90s. Interesting. Even today, if I asked an eng candidate to make this plot, many would have a very very hard time.
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Xerox Alto / Star UI
This is a screenshot of the Xerox STAR system from 1984. If you compare it to a desktop today, not much has changed. Most of the concepts have held up really well. What a testament to the team at PARC...
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