mwnorman2

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by mwnorman2 9mo ago
Well, I DID live through that era and I AM the 'old-man-yelling-at-clouds' ;-) and the main issue was that getting Smalltalk developers was a HUGE headache. I worked for a Telecom company (Canada's largest, rhymes with '
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by mwnorman2 11mo ago
Bill Tutte founded the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization in 1962 at the University of Waterloo (the year I was born!). No one knew about his Bletchley Park work until 1985; later in 2001 he was awarded the Order of Canada (he p
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by mwnorman2 2y ago
We had at least 1 PERQ at the University of Waterloo in the early 1980's A friend of mine was helping the local IT folks set it up - arranging to read a 9" tape of PERQ's BitBlit software. A bunch of us wanted to see the mac
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by mwnorman2 4y ago
Not only does Waterloo have a world-class C-&-O department, they also had a hero from Bletchley Park - Dr William Tutte, a kind gentle genius that never bragged about his accomplishments (he didn't talk about it, even to his family
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by mwnorman2 6y ago
The CS industry is rather cyclical - during the early phase of some 'hot new thing' (OOP, Internet, currently AI/Machine Learning) folks will employee anyone that can help. After some period of time, folks will want proof y
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by mwnorman2 7y ago
I am avoiding diets because they only end up with me gaining more weight further down the road. Everyone remember the 'Biggest Loser' show? Turns out some researchers followed-up with a statistically- significant sample size of co
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by mwnorman2 8y ago
I left the Smalltalk world years ago (for Java ... hmm was it a win?) but the thing I miss the most is ... reading great code. Within the Smalltalk image/IDE, everyday you read code that other folks - many with brains much much bigger
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by mwnorman2 8y ago
In my opinion, the industry wavers back and forth on CS degree or just 'git-er-done'. I remember the early computer 'craze' (1970's) when all you had to do was open a company called "Compu-NNNN" and money
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by mwnorman2 9y ago
I left a little more than 5 years ago ... I cannot fully explain how much ... lighter I felt after. I went to work with a cloud (ha!) over my head everyday for the previous oh 8 years of an almost 10-stint. I was contacted by an Oracle empl
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by mwnorman2 9y ago
Answer: nine ways to map 1:1 See slides 20, 21 and 22: http://images.slideplayer.com/9/2645248/slides/slide_20.jpg
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by mwnorman2 9y ago
I was part of the team that developed TopLink, later EclipseLink that became the reference implementation of JPA. After I left Oracle, almost all of the original 30+ Engineers/QA/Managers were moved to a different project. The git