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Tag Archives: just making it work
Missing the Point
A recent dinner companion shared a story of his management’s plan to ensure continuing maintenance and viability of a large and rather old mainframe system he supports for a government agency. His specialty is writing, maintaining, and modifying assembler code … Continue reading
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Lack of sleep() in Javascript
I get it. I really do. Javascript is intended to work in a (mostly) single threaded way and allowing it to sleep could gum things up tremendously. Reading that and similar links has been beneficial and I’ll be making time … Continue reading
Three Plates of Spaghetti
Spaghetti is great for a meal but not so much for code. I’ve had to deal with three major plates of spaghetti code in my career. Here’s how they went and what I learned. I got to write all my … Continue reading
The Greatest Field Improvisation Ever
When I was working on a furnace control system in Thailand I witnessed one of the coolest feats of engineering ever. The field service guy needed to measure the flow of gasses and a manometer was nowhere to be found. … Continue reading