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by mgrennan 11y ago
No. At age 60, when I was 12 they really didn't have a name for any of this. For years my school records had be as retarded. It was not until I taught myself calculus and trig in the 8th grade that my parent new something was wrong and
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Dysgraphia is a part related to dyslexia. This can be a problem, b d p q 9, W M N, O 0 o e, E 5 S R B and more.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Thank you for the link. I'm 60 and have suffered with Dyslexia all my life. I do well today thanks to spelling correction and Audio Books. But it is a struggle. There are "English Nazis" everywhere. I hear thing like "Y
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Software growth is not keeping up with hardware growth. My parents told me to "Clear your plate." That was because they lived through the depression. I remember writing code in assembler and 64k and feel the say way now. Program
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Mr. Kerr, your story is about the Law not Justice. The first story was about Justice and how the couple didn't get any. Both are good. What happened to "Protect and Serve". When did it become "Spy and Horas". Why h
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Then There is the story of the Emperor's new clothes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes Sometime older works or those in exit interview, just don't GAF and call "group think"
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Trusted computer is good. But TNO (Trust No One) is the only way to really be safe. Think. DeLL Cert fiasco and how that sort of think would break this.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
I worked in Dell's High complexity support for a couple of years. I saws RAID disk failures all day long. I BELIEVE SOFTWARE RAID IS YOUR FRIEND. I've seen hardware RAID system become corrupted because a miner version of the contr
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by mgrennan 11y ago
I work for a company with many product. This post explains why it is so hard for the company to move forward in our fast moving tech world. It also explains why so many startups today are "single trick ponies" that learn to expand
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Correct - More people die in hospitals then anywhere else. So should you be scared of going to the hospital?
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by mgrennan 11y ago
TNKS - Nice simple tool. I started in AWS (t1.micro) as a .jar. I had to do "hostname localhost" to get the database (h2) to run but then it came right up.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Why Docker, why not RPMs they are not that hard to build. They have years design an work behind them. I hate bloat. 20 years ago I could get the same work done today in 1000th the memory and disk space.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth - Does not one read this book anymore. It takes both and both must be considered throughout the coding process. Its all math / computing is a matter of encoding and logic. &#x2
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by mgrennan 11y ago
So so much truth in this. I've also seen Batch processing with terminals ID move to real time programming and operating systems. Move back to browsers and session ID (IE HTML GET / PUT are the new punch cards)
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by mgrennan 11y ago
This is where passion for the work is a mark for quality. A person who loves what they are doing works long hours from the start and is never done because they always can make it better.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Maybe not so rarely. The tech bubble of some years back was money in search of a solution.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
I have proof this is true. I have 35+ years experience in micro data processing. I have mentored several young people and seen them rocket to the top. I understand it is our nature to push away from parents to strike out on our own. I also
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Here is another. He writes in assembler. Steve Gibson GRC.com.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Good to see I was wrong.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Yes. I should have considered the crowd I was writing. I'm here. 35+ years of systems work starting with a 4004. I was inditing the new culture of "released and poor is better than not release and good" and "if it runs s
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by mgrennan 11y ago
This is a wonderful post that no-one will care about. This may be the only post. Today, programmers are more interested in the rate they can turn out "Just Works" code. These kinds of details are fare fare to down in the weeds for
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Good read. How long do your keep your transactions logs and how often do you make backups?
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Not that Cassandra and Hadoop don't have a place. But because NO-SQL is hot I see lots of young coders (I'm and old DBA) try to turn document store systems into relational databases. They should all be made to read this post.
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by mgrennan 11y ago
This talk describes the problem with software development today. Lot of young people wanting to create the next new thing with no idea about what they are creating. TO MUCH DOING, NOT ENOUGH THINKING. "THINK" is a motto coined by
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by mgrennan 11y ago
Nothing new here. I was doing this back in the 80 to check on the alignment of 8" floppies and backup tapes.
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The Devops Job
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by mgrennan 12y ago
Former embedded developer, former systems developer, former language developer, former application developer, former senior systems administrator and now DBA. (30 years) Simply put, the problem IS TITLES. They cause the "not my job&qu