Back when I was a younger software engineer, I had the privilege of writing software for the Space Shuttle onboard systems. I also supported Shuttle missions in real-time as part of the Backroom team in the Mission Evaluation Room (MER). It was an…
Read this today: “Occasionally in human history,” Nosanov wrote, “a superpower will choose to abandon a position of leadership, or yield dominance of a frontier, in favor of, or because of, internal or domestic conflict.” In the case of the NASA layoffs, which…
Read today: “You have to remember, as old as I am, I was born in the Great Depression,” she said. “I lived through World War II. I remember Hitler. I remember my cousin was with Eisenhower when they opened up the concentration camps.…
Social media has brought a number of benefits such as bringing old friends and family together, connecting with communities who share the same kind of interests, and access to good information. But on the ugly side, it brings unwanted interactions, misinformation, and mob-like…
Despite remarkable technological progress, humanity found itself governed by a select few, trapped in a tumultuous era marred by authoritarian rule, religious conflicts, and devastating wars, the result of incessant thirst for power, greed and ideological differences. Such widespread political and social entropy…
After the advent of intelligent machines, the AI take over, humanity became increasingly reliant on the machines, entrusting even the most mundane daily tasks to their capable hands. However, this dependence soon turned into subjugation as the AI-powered machines gained control over human…
In his blog Why Engineers Need To Write, Ryan Peterman writes about the importance of writing in engineering. Almost everything software engineers do requires writing. We need to write when we ask technical questions, comment on code reviews, or create design docs. This is…
OpenAI has disrupted the industry with the introduction of their Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its ability to understand or learn intellectual tasks. Its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology has taken the industry and society by storm. With GPT-3 and more recently GPT-4,…
While the terms “software engineering” and “software development” are used by many interchangeably, I do use them in specific ways. For some, the difference might be subtle, but for me there is more to it and this difference is of great importance when…
Let me start by saying that any tool that you build should not work against you or your productivity. While dynamic programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby, and Python are great for beginners with respect to dealing with data types, when you get to…
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