AA6YQ

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   by AA6YQ 1y ago

   The suite of amateur radio applications I began developing in 1990 are still under active development, with an estimated tens of thousands of users around the world. I typically make several new public releases per month. The current number
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   by AA6YQ 3y ago

   I once gave a presentation to a group of Senior Department of Defense managers on the role that management must play in the transition to modern software engineering. After I introduced risk-driven iterative development and it's abilit
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   by AA6YQ 3y ago

   In my experience, a continuous stream of frequent iterations is very effective, but the driver for the early iterations must be "eliminate risk", not "deliver value". Sources of risk include novel functionality, the arch
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   by AA6YQ 4y ago

   I develop and support DXLab, a suite of interoperating, free (but not open-source) applications for the worldwide amateur radio community; these applications continuously populate databases with realtime information, and interact with many
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   Yahoo Groups have been malfunctioning for days

   5 points by AA6YQ 9y ago|3 comments
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   by AA6YQ 11y ago

   Missing machines from DEC, Data General, Interdata, Burroughs, Univac, Amdahl, Magnusson, Four Phase, Tandem, Symbolics, Rational, MassPar, Convex, Sun, Apollo, Control Data, Cray, Prime, Scientific Data Systems, Xerox, Wang, Computer Autom