You know, when I’m driving around, I listen to WBBM News Radio 78 quite a bit if I’m close enough to pull it in, this is especially true if I’m helping on the family farm as you kind of live by the weather during times of fieldwork. This is in rather stark contrast to my NPR listening the rest of the time. Typically WILL out of Champaign (AM 580) because WBEZ (91.5fm, 90.7fm, 91.1fm) airs … Popups and Popovers are Physically Inexcusable Design FailuresRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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Walmart to Go Out of Business Soon
I have never been a fan of Walmart (WMT). It’s enslavement and exploitation of the most unfortunate in the world I have always found repulsive. There are also those persistent rumors that many of those “Made in China” products are actually “Made in North Korea” and sent across the border to China where the only thing China does is slap “Made in China” on them before putting them in a container bound for Walmart. It’s … Walmart to Go Out of Business SoonRead more
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Linux Anti-Virus Software Experiments
At some point we Linux users have to install anti-virus and malware software, if for no other reason than to protect the token few completely useless Windows boxes left in the world. A few enterprising rectal sphincters have also been writing email viruses for cross platform email clients and their various address book solutions. There’s even a token few Linux specific viruses. On a few machines I installed clamav from the distro repos. Two machines … Linux Anti-Virus Software ExperimentsRead more
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Another Shining Example of AGILE
Facebook (FB) is one of the most notorious proponents of AGILE. “Move quickly and break things.” AGILE – hacking on the fly without any design or road map while committing accounting fraud. Hacking on the fly gets you stories like these. The Declaration of Independence flagged as hate speech. When it comes to the Facebook development team, I can’t help but think of this movie. Definitely the kind of people you want working on a … Another Shining Example of AGILERead more
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Never Do a Friday Interview
I have one policy which, every time I break it, ends in tragedy. Never do a Friday Interview. I started this policy over twenty years ago while under contract at Waste Management. While I had done a lot of software development before that, I hadn’t really learned the ins and outs of corporate culture. I learned it there. Corporate policy meant everyone had to come into work on Friday, but, nobody actually had to work. … Never Do a Friday InterviewRead more