nobozo

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by nobozo 3y ago
One thing I believe was true in the COBOL+JCL world of the 1980s is that you couldn't write a program that would read the name of a file, and then open that file. All files to be accessed had to be specified statically with JCL. Am I r
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by nobozo 3y ago
I wrote about a failed attempt to migrate from Evernote to Google Docs in https://jlforrest.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/an-unsuccessful-e... . I eventually just migrated to OneNote and copied my notes over manual
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by nobozo 3y ago
I was part of the Postgres Research Group at UC Berkeley from 1991 to ~1995, working directly for Mike Stonebraker. To be honest, I didn't do any of the research work behind it, although I did port Postgres to Windows NT during this ti
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by nobozo 4y ago
Years ago I worked in the VAX/VMS development group at Sybase where SQLServer originated. SQLServer was basically an SQL interpreter consisting of several layers of loops. The innermost loop was written in assembler for speed. I was ab
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by nobozo 4y ago
Mike Stonebraker and others are working on an OS that is based on a database. Take a look at https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p21-skiadopoulos.pdf
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by nobozo 4y ago
I once interviewed at a startup. They asked all kinds of questions, technical and other, which was fine. They made me an offer, which I accepted. Then, I received the following: "About your offer, here at XXX we have the practice of do
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by nobozo 4y ago
Anything that Ken Shirriff writes ( http://www.righto.com/ ) is excellent. He's a UC Berkeley EE/CS PhD who likes to restore and reverse engineer interesting hardware. His writing is so clear. (minor disclosure - I
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by nobozo 5y ago
One thing I recommend is making sure the English native speakers you talk to know that you want to improve your accent. Make them realize that you would welcome their corrections and suggestions. Also, there's a big difference between
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by nobozo 5y ago
Funny you should mention this. I once worked at a startup that stored lots of remote sensing data. Their strategy was to put it on a Synology. When the Synology filled up, they bought another, and so forth. Only some of the Synologys were o
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by nobozo 6y ago
This was a while ago, but Borland's Turbo languages were revolutionary.
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by nobozo 13y ago
The first thing to do is to always be listening to people speaking English. Try to be aware of how they pronounce things and compare them to how you do it. Be aware of little things like verb conjugations. People will still understand you i