Posts by Julian S

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes

about 1/3 of a Wales of sheep.

Presto crypto: IBM releases gruntier, faster Z14 mainframe

Google doesn't work like that!

Sorry but Google doesn't work that way. Indexes are pre-built using batch processes and replicated across multiple zones and as much as possible cached in memory with pre-built criteria chains for rapid processing.

Microsoft whips out PowerApps – now your Pointy Haired Boss can write software, too!

Yet again a tool to solve the problem of coding being "complicated", which it isn't, to make money from the folks who think it hand this shiny new magic bullet will let them write code magically to solve any problem. That reality of automated development just got even further into the future, since we'll get another decade wasted messing around with this and fixing random dross.

Guy Kewney: Integrity in socks and sandals

Very Great Loss

An inspiring writer, reading his articles always entertained and are one of the reasons I was inspired to make a career in I.T.