Tag Archives: Tech

For a long time—in the early days—I thought of Google as the spiritual heir of the CSRC from Bell Labs. After all, Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Russ Cox, and probably others landed there. And Google was doing some first rate … Continue reading →

The world has gone mad. When I was a young programmer™, we strived to adjust our programs to reflect reality. If there was a mismatch, there was no doubt where the fault lay: the model was wrong and needed to … Continue reading →

Three weeks ago—against all I hold true and noble—I was forced to take Google’s side in a dispute between them and the news media. You might suspect I’ve grown soft on Google but let me assure you that’s not the … Continue reading →

Now it’s The Atlantic’s turn to feed my Boeing obsession. Unlike the other articles on Boeing that I’ve linked to, The Atlantic’s Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing looks at the early history of Boeing and what it … Continue reading →

I was going to fold this into my last post on Boeing but as I considered how to add it to that post, I realized that I had too much to say. As I noted in the last post, I’ve … Continue reading →

This is yet another post about Boeing and its troubles. I know I seem obsessive about this issue, and I am. It saddens me that a company known for—some would say who defined—engineering excellence has been hijacked by a pack … Continue reading →

I’m an old guy and I’ve been programming for a long time. Virtually all of that programming has involved using a compiler or an assembler. Until I dabbled in AWK, Perl, and Python and started using Giuile, my only use … Continue reading →