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2011-4-13 20:12
Sharpening the saw
We had three large black oaks taken down last year. For some time I tried to convince myself that we could fell them but wise wife talked me out o ...
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2011-4-11 16:55
Making "Software Engineering" Engineering
Michael Linden alerted me to an article in Dr. Dobbs website wherein the author expounds on the hopes of a significant group of well-known people ...
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2011-4-10 21:01
Programming quotations
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Those words ring with Shakespearian power. Hamlet ? King Lear ? Actually, t ...
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2011-4-8 16:12
The use of assertions
There are things we are supposed to do that we don't. Exercise. Avoiding fast foods. Use the assert() macro. Exercise is a real pain that requires ...
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2011-4-6 21:19
EMI and ESD—The Ghost in our Machines
Several readers sent me this link to an article about a stove that gets turned on when a nearby cellphone rings. On other sites on the 'net that ...
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2011-4-5 19:40
Developing a good bedside manner
Why are debugging code and alien abduction so similar? Because in both cases large blocks of time are unaccounted for. Medicine, too, rese ...
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2011-4-4 11:51
Age Discrimination in Hiring
When I was a teenager my dad ran a help-wanted ad. He was trying to hire an engineer, and in the ad had placed the phrase "this is a great opportu ...
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2011-4-3 11:49
Thanks for the memories
If each of our hands had eight fingers, we'd count in hexadecimal and non-geeks wouldn't puzzle over numbers that include the letters A through F. ...
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2011-4-2 11:30
The Death of Software Engineering?
Alert reader Bob Paddock sent a link to Tom DeMarco's article in IEEE Software: "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone". Thou ...
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2011-3-31 18:49
What makes embedded different?
Pediatricians treat children. Gerontologists work with the aging. Both practice medicine, but their skills are very different. The mechani ...
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2011-3-30 11:09
Securing Keys, DRAMs and Freeze-Mist
In one of the more interesting articles in the Communications of the ACM in recent years, Halderman and a cast of thousands write in the May, 2009 ...
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2011-3-29 16:49
Forgettable Flash
How long will a flash device remember? We all know about wearing flash out through excessive writes. Plenty of wear-leveling approaches ...
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2011-3-26 18:21
Hacked
According to an entry on Wikileaks and other sources, hackers broke into a database used by pharmacists in Virginia, US last April 2009. Eight mill ...
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2011-3-25 15:45
Software Engineering versus "real" engineering
Are we engineers? In some states in the US that title is restricted to those who pass professional competency tests. The New Oxford Americ ...
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2011-3-24 18:03
Firmware Metrics
Last 2009, I gave a talk at the Embedded Systems Conference which covered, among other subjects, code inspections. Inspections are sure to ...
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