mgrennan

Yes I'm 60 with deep knowledge.

Electronics, assembler, system / language / application development, data structures and flow design, protocol design, UI design and now working on AI.

This is where the use of "Older" IT people would help. Take all the new ideas and innervation and filter it through the 60 year old IT guy (Knowledge experts).

Explain your ideas well with examples. Lesson how that problem has been solved before. Don't build new ideas on old code. Find shortcuts to the results.

Don't be naive. Ignorant is better.

Naive is not knowing your don't know.

Ignorant is knowing your don't know.

Applause! Applause! Hands Clapping!

One step closer to just Code And Run (CAR).

I think CAR is how development will be done in the future. (Literally tomorrow)

Yes - there are many RED FLAGS. One is they skip all the hard parts(Tech Diligence), like security and and are all ready selling to the public.

BS - A lot of good stuff started as homebrew tech. GoPro for example.

Steve Jobs rule 4 should come in here somewhere.

I agree, the first software produced is just a proof of concept and will be re-written. I even believe the only way to write good code is to build it fast in some intransitive language and then throw it away and do it over in something compiled.

So I agree with this post except, to become great, you need to know upfront you are just proving the idea and you will do Technical Diligence of the final product and NOT SELL CRAP.

Very COOL! As a DBA, as fare as I'm concerned this is how databases should be used. NO! application should contain SQL. SQL should ONLY be in an API.

The more a complex system increases in complexity (parts) the more likely some part will fail and the less likely that failure will create a catastrophic failure. (Mark's Law)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Author C. Clark)

With the advent of AI we will soon reduce IT into magic.

And Sodden is wrong. The government is not collecting your data.

"Part 107 does not apply to model aircraft that satisfy all ofthe criteria specified in section 336 of Public Law 112-95."

Then from 112-95 part 336(a)(1), " the aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;"

So these are rules for people doing chimerical work like "property assessment" or outdoor photography. Not your hobby flyer / AMA member.

I have sexdaily too.

Can you share your font settings? I've Ubuntu 14.4 and installed OpenDyslexic and like it. (helpful) But in some places the font seems large and it doesn't show everywhere.

When you find your self asking this question think..."Am I naive about the subject" Naive = Not knowing you don't know. Ignorant = Knowing your don't know. Many years in IT (40) has taught me a little base knowledge like this goes a LONG way.

I've been disappointed in Yubico since I reported a Replay Attack, in their server, to them and Steve Gibson a couple of years ago. They gave now reply. Steve replied after a called him out publicly. I'm considering creating a like process based on the USB Rubber Ducky. I'm thinking simple one time pad. https://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/usb-rubber-ducky-delu... 1s

When and how did "Protect and Serve" become "Sneek and Spy"?

I have 40 year experience in developer, systems and security. The real problem comes from the top. Upper management, CEO, CIO, CFO do understand risk and don't understand technology. To them, security wholes are just bugs in "the code" or product liabilities in products used.

More then once I showed management they had a life ending bug. (Little Johnny drop tables) and was fired for being the messenger.

This is just life at lots of "Heartless" companies. DELL for example, Cuts the bottom X% of staff based on "Performance". Sic, getting a divorce, new children, ask/forced to work odd shifts, working in some managers experimental project...

Your CUT.

It's OK - We (developers) are not liable for software bugs!

I'm not worried about the "Move Fast and Break Things Often" mentality. This will only last until it kills a much of people. Think code in cars, plans, X-ray machines, pill dispensers etc.

This is a great question. It forces the greater question: Can you "Be Dedicated" and be more than one thing. Silicon valley seems to believe:

You can't be a CEO and pregnant.

You can't be a lead programmer and old (> 30).

You can't love both Linux and Windows.

You can't be Democrat and vote for a Republican.

How did we become so decided.

If you don't know history.....

40 years of computer experience as EE, coder, IT security, DBA tells me; when IT moved from a way to do work (science) to a thing of its own (marketing); this happened during Dot-Com bubble, time to market became the goal and security was tossed. You here this in mantras like:

Push NOW fix latter. Fail fast and often.

I say: Secure, Complete, Fast - Pick two.

Can you understand this? Why do we complain about spelling?

Eye have a spelling chequer, It came with my Pea Sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a whirred And weight four it two say Weather eye am write oar wrong It tells me straight a weigh.

Eye ran this poem threw it, Your shore real glad two no. Its vary polished in its weigh. My chequer tolled me sew.

A chequer is a bless thing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right all stiles of righting, And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The chequer pours o'er every word Two cheque sum spelling rule.

You mean like the letter sounds E and I. They sound different. I checked that with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekEr_e3oaM - Yes I can. I think it phonic not sonic. I think it where the brain crosses the sound over the to concept of a letter or word. When I try to reproduce what it sounds like to be it comes out pin and pan or pen and pee-n.

For me it depends on how it is done. If the application just displaces the same letters. No, it's still hard to read. If the app substitues letters that look alike (dpqb) then I can read it just fine.

That's interesting. I once ask a friend who speed reads to read his book to me. He said no because if he did he wouldn't be able to understand it himself. He said he read in ideas or pictures. He explained speed reading was like watching a movie. If he would have to explain what he was seeing or read every word and that was more work then he could do and follow along.

It was at this point I understood how different people read differently.

I've been told, and I've observed it myself, that about 60+% of dyslexics are males with IQs above 120. Having dyslexia lead to being labeled as retarded. It was because of my interests in model rocketry and teaching myself Calc and Trig and my parents not excepting the schools label I did better.

A lot of the students I schooled with in special Ed ended up in jobs or in jail. I'm a database administrator for a weather company.

Yes, some dyslexis like myself do. For example Pin and Pen both sound the same to me. I don't care how you try to pronounce them or with different accents. They are always the same.

As a dyslexic of some repute, (I'm 60) I can't say both are turn. Both visual (dbpq9) queuing and audible (phonics) apply. I believe the difference in test done by people like Ms Wellborn are because of the changes in the way children are tough. "Hooked on phonics" is now thought as bad.

Yes they do if your dyslexia is also mixed with dysgraphia. Personally I find the very helpful.

There are fonts to help with dyslexia. They try to make like letter different. They also remove a lot of the variable spacing. https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexie-font/