by H.S. Lahman
Updated 9/21/17 for typos and the NOAA “reanalysis” of the temperature plateau. Fundamental Climate Processes To understand how the Greens have fallen down the rabbit hole, I need to run through a quick description of basic Earth processes as they relate...
by H.S. Lahman
updated 9/21/17: typos and eliminated some redundancy to other posts. Geologic History of the Earth with Respect to Climate The geological history of the Earth places the Greens in a very unflattering perspective. That history is full of facts that the Greens do not...
by H.S. Lahman
The Keystroke Fetish. There is a fundamental assumption that pervades the software industry today: Productivity is directly improved by reducing developer keystrokes. Clearly the paradigm shift from Assembly language to 3GLs in the early ‘60s reduced keystrokes by...
by H.S. Lahman
With the growth of the Internet that started in the mid-‘80s came an attendant growth in networking. That introduced a rapidly increasing need for applications to share data and interact with one another across platforms. The problem was that the hardware vendors...
by H.S. Lahman
The OO paradigm held great promise in the ‘80s because it provided a much more direct link between the customer space and the computing space due to problem space abstraction. And, in fact, it has substantially improved the maintainability of software. I once...
by H.S. Lahman
Today every vendor of an infrastructure brands it as “object-oriented”. In fact, the vast majority of infrastructures are – if one is in a very charitable mood – just object-based. If one is in a less than charitable mood, they are just function libraries where...
by H.S. Lahman
First, let me say that the Agile processes institutionalized a number of excellent ideas in software development – pair programming for reviewing the product, incremental development to properly manage and estimate projects, integrating testing with development,...
by H.S. Lahman
One cannot talk about the problems of the software industry without talking about software education. Years ago I was working on a process improvement activity. The goal was to improve our interviewing techniques for June Grads. We did a typical matrix of qualities we...
by H.S. Lahman
I was born on the March 20, 1938, which is the first day of Spring. Some say that childhood makes the man. I would like to think that’s a crock because I was an odious child. In fact, I can recall wishing I could grow up so I wouldn’t be so obnoxious. The fact that I...
by H.S. Lahman
Green Economics I. In their zeal to curtail CO2 emissions, the Greens maintain a number of economic positions. To say that the Greens are economically challenged is probably one of the great understatements of the 20th century. There is an aphorism that the A students...