If you run a statistical sample on modern maths books, it becomes clear that maths is usually about 6cm x 5cm.

I found Showstopper! even more compelling

Those two books are probably the two best about tech projects I've ever read. I worked at Data General as a product manager for about 13 years and know many of the individuals although I joined a few years after the book was written.

What strikes me is the stories that never get told. I met a retiree at a Java meetup once who had worked at Zilog during the z8000 era. He was surprised to meet someone who knew about that.

Especially, pre-web and pre-blogs there's a great deal of tech industry history that largely doesn't exist any longer unless it was especially notable and/or some author decided to spend a year or two writing about it.

Cool thanks for the recommendation!

> Sometimes the interpolated detail is wrong

you just (correctly) negated your own claim

Israel _creates_ extreme right Islamist ideology as a reaction to its genocidal and expansionist behavior.

When she was 4 my daughter managed to shove one of those trackpad caps up her nose. At first she was going for the clown look but ended up in frantic tears and a visit to A&E at 2am

i’m sorry this really made me laugh - I hope she’s ok!

Yes she's fine thanks, one of the docs kindly dragged himself to the unit and plucked the thing out with some forceps :-)

You might be right but the gallery owner has probably learnt that disputing the authenticity of his pieces with walk in punters rarely leads to a fruitful discussion

Actually, back in the day Andersens (and EDS) were some of the few companies that could deliver really big systems (for all their faults) e.g. https://accountancyage.com/2000/03/16/andersen-consulting-to... . Each year a number of analysts had nervous breakdowns, I worked with one of them.

I worked on some very large very emergency contact tracing, disease surveillance, and vaccine management implementations during covid. Someone on one of my teams ended up in an inpatient facility after a breakdown. Having senior leadership break down in tears on calls was unusual but not unheard of during that time either. Analysts and others at that level went from ok to very not ok in about 90 days. No one cares about consultants, they get ground to dust and then replaced with another team. I was paid well but it was a tough time.

I found this too. They’re under a lot of pressure, especially because if they don’t deliver, their visa will be yanked and replaced with the next cog

For anyone who has read about this period, such as The Soul Of A New Machine, there's some great stories on this site.

Yeah I found the site after reading the book. I have never seen a company like that.

That's a fair question, for one thing white space is often important and sometimes very important, so we need spacing to be very clear. Also it can be useful to have vertical alignment to indicate a pattern in the code or data.

lol