Science Demystified
One often hears the remark “Well Science has proven that…”. This has always sounded very strange to me. Is Science a living thing? How can it prove something if it’s not living? Science without a living...
Read Moreby Derek | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized | 1 |
One often hears the remark “Well Science has proven that…”. This has always sounded very strange to me. Is Science a living thing? How can it prove something if it’s not living? Science without a living...
Read Moreby Derek | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 |
I’ve been wanting to write something on this topic for quite a while now. Artificial Intelligence or AI as it is known was initially made popular by Alan Turing last century. It then seemed to die down in popularity and...
Read Moreby Derek | Jul 19, 2017 | Software, Uncategorized | 0 |
Well I’m cruising 36,000 feet above the Atlantic cramped in economy class with better things to do. I came across this article in CIO about developers and what they get up to. The gist of the story is that developers...
Read Moreby Derek | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 |
Everything we do in life concerns knowledge. Some understanding of the subject is required to accomppish anything with it. If we broaden this outlook we see that in essence life is about knowledge! When you know something well...
Read Moreby Derek | Sep 30, 2016 | Software, Uncategorized | 1 |
We hear a lot about innovation in the software industry these days. It is sold as the ultimate thing to aim for in any software endeavor. I was looking at this the other day and it seemed like there was something missing there....
Read Moreby Derek | Jul 8, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 |
One lesson I have learned through the years, and have needed to re-learn at some points is a lesson that I feel could change the face of innovation in the software industry. Unfortunately schooling these days teaches a pupil to...
Read Moreby Derek | Jun 1, 2016 | Uncategorized | 1 |
Have you ever wondered what it is that slows software projects? What is it that makes some projects miss their deadlines and others succeed? What is the key item that puts spanners in the works on some development endeavours?...
Read Moreby Derek | May 16, 2016 | Uncategorized | 1 |
In my first actual job in 1985 we did real time programming on Digital Equipment Corporation VAX computers. I liked these machines , they had 32 bit address space, so no fiddling with selectors or active page registers. However...
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