Certainly the next stage in my professional development: recently, doing some hard drive housekeeping, I moved my professional résumé into an /Archives folder. Not gonna need it anymore.
And, thank Fox, I haven't had a bid résumé for consulting work in seven years. Bid résumés sit somewhere on the lies-damn lies-statistics continuum.
giving light to the poor soul mentally parsing code.It does sorta look like a lamp.
- How does it tell me when I've effed up?
- When I inevitably eff up, how hard is it to fix it?
- How does it minimize the consequences of my eff up?
For [neuroscientist Bjoern] Brembs, older PCs offer another crucial feature that was lost when Microsoft replaced its text-based operating system, MS-DOS, with Windows. MS-DOS “handles data as they come in with no buffering delays”, says Brembs, who exploits this feature for his fruit-fly flight simulator. “In Windows, so many things are constantly happening in the background,” Brembs says. You might want to take measurements at intervals of precisely 50 milliseconds, but the operating system might be able to manage only an average of 50 ms, with intervals ranging from 20 to 80 ms, depending on what else it has to do. “For flies,” says Brembs, “such massive delays are perceivable.”
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... a striking Burroughs ad from 1964 shows a dramatically-lit photo of its B200 system with the headline, “angry young computer.” Beneath is a short bit of copy, which describes how the B200 can “outdo any computer in its class” and “gets angry” (just like a human!) when people purchase other machines “on the basis of name or initials.” Without mentioning IBM by name, the ad pokes fun at the industry leader while simultaneously touting its own brand in a witty way.
