Article on self-driving cars (opens in new window) Haven’t really been paying much attention to google or tesla and their auto driving cars – but just watched this demo video of how the Tesla car works. (Software + Hardware) engineering is just freaking amazing! I am now able to better understand those Star Wars (prequel […]
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Supporting really old applications
Article on supporting really old computer programs (opens in a new window) Really interesting story about supporting a 60 yr old “computer application”…and not being able to find people that know the older programming languages [they mention Fortran, Assembly, even ALGOL.] I know that some of the code (programs) I wrote in the early to […]
Re-Reading “The Girl…Dragon Tattoo”, part 2
Hmm, an update to my Stieg Larsson (“The girl with the dragon tattoo”) book reading. If you remember, I had already read the first two books around 4-5 yrs ago. Got a bit burned out after reading them back to back, and never went back to the final book of the trilogy. This was where […]
Passing of a great man: George Mueller
Back in the ’80s, one of the predecessor companies of Unisys (Burroughs), bought a company called SDC (System Development Corporation) where George Mueller was the CEO, merging that firm into Burroughs, with Mr. Mueller becoming a Senior VP of Burroughs. He was at the head of NASA’s endeavor to put a man on the moon […]
Excitement over new book: “Split Second”
You know you must be reading a good book when, at the end of Chapter three, you almost shout out “Omg,” (actually I didn’t shout, and it wasn’t omg, but it was quite a loud “Wow!, Wow!”). Cannot remember why I chose this book as one to download as a Kindle sample (several weeks ago), […]
