Tag Archives: Friday Poll

How many environments?

Posted on August 14, 2015 by way0utwest

One of the things I’ve learned over time is that in order to develop software, you need multiple environments. I think that outside of school projects, I’ve always used at least two environments: development and production. At school there were … Continue reading →

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Is Skynet Coming?

Posted on July 24, 2015 by way0utwest

That’s the question this week: Is Skynet coming? I read a piece recently that noted Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates have warned us about artificial intelligence. They have been quoted as this is potentially something that the human race … Continue reading →

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Does It Count?

Posted on June 19, 2015 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Jan 28, 2011. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. I wrote a blog recently about downtime and SLAs, and the need to have not only downtime SLAs, but also a … Continue reading →

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Statistical Analysis

Posted on May 29, 2015 by way0utwest

I ran across a book recently that is written to address some of the statistical issues the author has found in many scientific papers. It’s been released online for free, but if you like it and would like a more portable … Continue reading →

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