Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Refactoring

    Refactoring

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    Don’t be sentimental around your bad ideas. Iterate on them.Martin Molin, Wintergatan, 2021-03-03

  • How far we’ve come

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    I get the Bloomberg Technology email blast every morning, and this one hit home particularly. I can’t believe that I’ve been working in tech for 37 years, and the items she mentions aren’t even the most amazing things to have happened in that time… Welcome to Bloomberg Technology, I’m Emily Chang in San Francisco. For 10…

  • Wi-Fi 6E

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    If 2.4 GHz was the paved suburban road leading to your house while 5 GHz was the major double-lane thoroughfare that takes you downtown, Wi-Fi 6E will introduce a new 6 GHz band that’s the equivalent of a massive multi-lane highway allowing many devices to operate at maximum speed at the same time. The top…

  • In-person meetings

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    When in-person meetings disappeared last year, they were replaced with a weird, new kind of Zoom briefing. In some ways it was more efficient: Each moment of a video meeting is dominated by a single presenter, who—once they figure out how to unmute—feels additional pressure to quickly make a point. But side comments and crosstalk…

  • And for those of you homeschooling

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    I am looking forward to schools reopening and in-person teaching resuming. The tech industry has ballyhooed the potential of online learning for years. Twenty-twenty was the first real test, and it failed badly. Poorer students with fewer tech resources (good laptops and strong internet) and kids with busy parents have suffered most. Many of the…

  • The end of Moores Law

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    This post was originally written on December 2, 2003Today, ZD Net sent the following paragraph in their daily email news blast:Moore’s Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. That ultimate barrier to building increasingly powerful chips with smaller transistors is still a…

  • Are we there yet?

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    The IEEE Spectrum magazine of February 2008, in an article on 60Ghz silicon transceivers, said:The electronic devices in our homes and offices will be chattering furiously and wirelessly in another five to 10 years.  Cables will go the way of the buggy whip.I certainly hope this is true, but today, 22-Feb-2008, I’m wondering if this…