Saturday, August 24, 2024

Prelude to Massive Disloyalty: Employers I believe I'd like to work for

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This was in my Draft folder...from 2008. Let's review: EveryBlock - no longer exists, got swallowed up by another company. Amazon - ...

You Can't Force STEM pt I

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I was at Bloomington's Makevention Maker Convention (hence the name, think Maker Faire but in a more independent way) last weekend and I...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

SSIS: 'to find this programmatically needs some circus'

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In 2005 Microsoft introduced SSIS, which is a nice friendly GUI interface for defining dataflows between systems. It replaced DTS, which was...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

'We're going to have congressional hearings about this project' - the Healthcare.gov problems trigger bad memories of a fucked up time

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Lately the problems of the Healthcare.gov site have been in the news. It is pretty much a disaster. A very large software project apparently...
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Monday, July 08, 2013

Free as in Beer: My Recent MOOC experience

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I last sat in a conventional classroom in December of 1994. I was taking a Topology Final as a Ph.D. student (Mathematics, if you don't ...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Keeping Louisville Retro: Louisville Arcade Expo 2013

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Two posts ago I wrote about Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland, a real 80s-era arcade. Today I'm writing about the Louisville Arcade Ex...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Harry Potter and the Outdated Piece Of Shit Technology With Management Support

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We were having this discussion Friday, which is kind of sad. There is a politically favored technology in house that sucks ass, and we feel ...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Ground Kontrol Arcade, a Great Place for Video Games and a Bad Place for Comedy

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Occasionally I get to travel for my job. I like that it's occasional, but on the other hand I would hate to never get a chance to travel...
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