iOS 6 Bricked My iPhone 4S
Ok, so… maybe updating my just-over-a-year-old iPhone 4S to iOS 6 about a month or so ago didn’t “brick” it in the traditional tech gadget-sense of the word, but… it’s made the device often totally...
View ArticleOn Footnotes
Longtime readers of The Sober Build Engineer may find today’s XKCD amusing1. I get asked a lot of times why this blog tends to rely heavily on footnotes; it turns out it’s mostly a historical...
View ArticleA Decade Ago
Today marks a somber event, which I started recording in a series of posts in my blog-of-the-time, ten years ago today. What follows is an excerpt from the first one: A family friend picked me up and...
View ArticlePomp and Circumstances
It’s that time of year again where students button up all their final projects (hopefully!) and march across stages all over the world to be awarded a degree they’ve been striving for years toward....
View ArticleOver the Long Term
Your long term failures never manifest as quickly as you’re afraid of… and your long term successes never manifest as slowly as you fear. –J. Paul Reed
View ArticleArmchair Airplane Analysts
In the wake of the Asiana 214 accident, it’s been interesting to observe the differences in how the government media response, mainly through the NTSB, has changed since the last large-scale aviation...
View ArticleNot X. But Not Quite Y.
It’s pretty much a given that generational demography turns out to be a softer science. I am most commonly thrown in with “The Millennials” (which is what they apparently settled on for the...
View ArticleThe Subversive Repository
This month’s Vanity Fair has a story on an odd criminal case every programmer should familiarize themselves with, if only for their own safety. The story involves Sergey Aleynikov’s (unfair, some might...
View ArticleNow Showing: Your Life
My grandmother passed away last week. She was 85. Due to a series of poor choices1, compounded by the geriatric randomness, her last few weeks were spent in a county nursing facility. So the platitudes...
View ArticleAt Least History is Consistent
From How Silicon Valley Became The Man: That’s all a way of ignoring the systems that make the world possible. One example from the ‘60s that I think is pretty telling is all the road trips. The road...
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