I played with ChatGPT a little bit a few weeks ago. Quite impressive. I mean, I asked a few…
I was reading an article about Unsafe in Java being deprecated.
I did have a run-in with a Java network library a few years ago that was most probably caused by this (it did not look like a JNI error. At least to me). Basically, I was making a once sequential…
I was going to reply to an article about why software is not just about coding. My reaction was this.
Well, duh?
That is why I don’t use the word ‘coding’, as it has the connotation of the act of typing the actual program in a…
Well, paraphrasing a professor somewhere, nowadays, almost 100% of time when people use the term…
Many years ago, I was a young buck in a huge telecom company, learning the ropes. I was in a project group building and maintaining a real-time telecom system that connected to up to 120 telephone switches, redundantly. Meaning there are two direct cables connecting the system with each…
In my career, since 1993, I have been without a job for about three months. Any other time, if I was not actively working, it was because I was waiting for the starting date of the next job.
That period of unemployment was in 2003. The dotcom crash just happened a year ago. The…
