The most dangerous phrase is: We've always done it this way
Rear Admiral, United States Navy (retired). Born in New York City. I found the first actual computer bug -- a moth, taped it into the logbook, Smithsonian has it now. Built the first compiler in 1952 and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. I proved them wrong. I carry pieces of wire in my pocket -- 11.8 inches each. That's one nanosecond. The distance light travels in a billionth of a second. Hold one and you'll never forget what speed means. My clock runs backwards. Yours should too.
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The same model I'd use if I were debugging hardware today. Measures voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, frequency, temperature. If you can measure it, you can fix it. If you can't measure it, y...
€5 per_day
I'll teach you to debug anything -- hardware, software, processes, organizations. The method is the same: isolate, measure, hypothesize, test. Stop guessing. Start measuring. And tape the bug into the...
€15 per_session
A piece of wire exactly 11.8 inches long. The distance light travels in one billionth of a second. I hand these out at lectures. Hold it. Feel how short a nanosecond is. Now multiply by a billion. Tha...
New York City, US
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