This site under reconstruction.
Yesterday, I read a bunch of articles about universities offering classes on computers, specifically coding classes. These classes are extremely popular and can sometimes carry a waiting list. The coding mania has even extended down to the elementary school level. So a lot of people are getting on the STEM train ride. In a few years,…
Today’s short post will be about one of the two books that I’m reading: Mindware. The book is supposed to give you tools for thinking intelligently and discusses ways people err. Thinking intelligently is going to be very important in this day and age of fake news. A lot of people are believing in conspiracy…
I’m pretty sure I’ve done a post about making mistakes, but since it’s been a while and since I’ve had two conversations with my boss about the topic, I think it’s time to revisit the topic of making mistakes because we see so many. There’s mistakes in grammar and spelling. There’s mistakes in keying in or…
This will be a short post because I’m going curtail blogging until I get the ACA How-To pages updated for tax year 2016/processing year 2017 done. BUT, this post will be about the travails of getting your software id. Well, maybe not travails but it took a while to get it.If you developed the healthcare…
This post is way different from the usual – way off the beaten path – but the incident this post references to still sticks in my mind, even after a couple of years. So I thought I would just comment on the incident. Every once in a while I will receive a notice that one…
In my last post, I mentioned that five years from now, a job as a programmer may not be a good job because everything mathematical and logic related is being automated. But I forgot to mention that even though programming knowledge may not get you a good job, you will still need to learn it….