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Understanding Comics by Scott Mccloud http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html

The four printed books by Edward Tufte https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis

Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color by Arthur Wesley Dow

Khan Academy khanacademy.org is a free online learning site. It has a complete math curriculum, and is branching out into other topics.

Charge the sponsoring company a fee of $70K to $ 100K a year for each visa. Then use the money to make STEM college degrees free or very low cost for US students.

I used to say the software project would be done two weeks after the last change to the requirements and specifications. No more "just one more thing".

Will need very talented programmers, data center designers and excellent management. Good luck with that.

College is more than just learning a vocation. Another goal is evolving yourself into a well rounded human being. Each quarter / semester take one course outside your comfort zone. Public speaking, improv theater, drawing, photography, music, philosophy, film production, drama, writing. Join a non-tech club. Learn new stuff, and how to relate to non-nerds. Expand your abilities, world view, and persistence.

IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research, Motorola Semiconductor, Commodore, Atari, Silicon Graphics, Burroughs, Sun Microsystems.

It depends on supply and demand for skills. If you have average skills that a hundred thousand other people have, then your skills are less valuable. If you have expert skills in a high demand area, then up. So building websites and most apps is flooded with people. Autonomous cars, some AI/ML security, VR / AR, vision, even COBOL, have fewer people, high demand. Just become very valuable to your potential employer. (Think about debugging autonomous cars, what would you make if you were great at that!)

There are online courses, some free, for those topics. There are open source projects on many of those topics.

I have not seen any solution for tracking changes, differences,displaying versions, etc. I.E. git for pictures. Some visual languages can turn an area into a 'subroutine', I have not seen any solution to build libraries of reusable 'subroutines'. I used to draw flowcharts on size D (22.0 x 34.0 in) and size E (34.0 x 44.0 in) sheets of paper. I wish I had a monitor of either of those sizes.

Visual programming works very well for data flow problems.

It should be easy to write correct programs.

Sorry, you are new to Computer Science. Undergraduate CS only covers a couple of percent of the topic. Do you know distributed systems, machine learning, robotics, image processing, concurrency, NLP, programming language design, hardware design, computer architecture, software engineering, program verification, security, databases, computer graphics, computer history? Probably not.

Read : Abstraction and Specification in Program Development, then read all four volumes of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. There are lots of courses on EdX, and MIT Open courseware.

Undergraduate CS is just the start, a tiny beginning.

The university is the best place to find a girl friend/ boy fried. Also a great place to make long term friends.

The Vienna State Opera is releasing one opera a day, up for 72 hours (subtitles in multiple languages) https://www.staatsoperlive.com/live

The Metropolitan Opera (NYC) is releasing one opera a day, up for 23 hours, has English subtitles. https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-...

https://operawire.com/ has a complete list of opera companies doing free streaming.

Wikipedia has details and synopsis for many operas.

Khan Academy has programming classes, including both AP courses. Also look at their Pixar in a Box classes. Free

EdX has a bunch of college level CS courses, including several verions of Harvard's CS50 courses. Start with Introduction to CS. Free to audit.

Tech rapidly transitioning to completely remote interactions. Why do people have to travel and cram together to get things done?

Simple first steps: Every worker that just uses a computer and a phone is converted to a remote worker. Close down the huge energy wasting office towers and eliminate commuting emissions. The famous 'build a HQ2 with 50,000 new jobs is totally wrong. Build 50 offices across the country with 1000 employees. Build affordable housing next to new office buildings. Get rid of all of the private jets moving people.

Develop a methodology for writing correct software. No bugs, guaranteed.

User groups provided assistance, shared knowledge, and shareware software before there was the Internet.

I attended a PC users group at Stanford during the late 1980's. Mostly product announcements and demos. A lot of I did this, you can do it too! People selling shareware software on 5 1/4 inch floppies for a dollar: text editors, simple databases, games. People were welcoming to newcomers, and helpful. IBM clone PC computers cost over a thousand dollars without hard disks.

I also attended a couple of meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club at SLAC. Mostly ego boasting. I missed Woz showing the Apple I.

Some of the BMUG CD roms and a huge batch of user group newsletters are on archive.org.

If you are in Silicon Valley, there is a Vintage Computer Faire West on August 1-2, 2020 at the Computer History Museum. Lots of personal collections on display, and CHM has lots of unique stuff. Demos of operational DEC-1 (Space War!) and IBM 1401s (card readers, line printers, tape drives from 1959). http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west...

Can quote: Randall

How do you tell the difference between civilians and combatants?

Years ago, I worked at a large stock trading website. We deliberately used both Oracle SQL and Sybase SQL, with an interface layer. We deliberately did not use any special features from either. We ran both in production, some services on one, rest on other. We would occasionally test all services on each one. Reasons: price protection; the product or the vendor would disappear; future upgrades would break our system; sticking with 'standard' SQL features (no shiny new undebugged functions); and easier developer training. What do you do when your sole vendor doubles or triples the price?

They should build 25,000 or more apartments at Moffett Field / NASA Ames. Use the runways as streets, build 10-15 story buildings with retail at the base. Sheath Hanger One with transparent solar panels. Then many can walk / bike / scooter northwest to Google land over a new pedestrian bridge, or southeast to Amazon / Yahoo etc. The VTA light rail runs alongside. The proposed CA law wants to force high density housing along transit corridors. The empty fields at Moffett are next to a transit corridor. Focus on making it easy for people get to work quickly without a car. Make it easy for people to live without a car.

San Francisco or Palo Alto.

This is the best book on software engineering and project management.

1. Need standards for process, coding style, change control, documentation. Must be easy to move people between projects without massive retraining. Implies use only one programming language.

2. Change control is essential.

3. Some projects cannot be completed faster: Nine women will not produce a baby in one month.

4. Forced schedules will impact quality.

5. There is No Silver Bullet. There is implicit difficulty that cannot be changed by tools, process, training.

Just read the book!

There is a lot of success in translating speech into a foreign language speech in near real time. The next step would be to convert heavily accented speech (example: English) into normal pronunciation speech (example: English). This is called "auto-correct for accents". This would make webcast conferences (example: Google IO) more comprehensible.

Several of my jobs in the past were programming proprietary languages and systems. No one outside the company had experience. Look for CS background, wide experience, quick learner, and team player attitude without arrogance. The differences in programming language details is trivial. What you will be using in the future is not what you are using now.

Texas cannot be a high tech hub until it prohibits non-compete agreements. With non-compete agreements, startups can start, but cannot grow.

Offer a quiet, private office. Two or more monitors. Free snacks and free lunches. Modern software stack (whatever that is).

Or full-time remote.

A private, quiet office. Two or more monitors. Free snacks and free lunches. One conference a year.

Nope: The keyboard made the product disgusting to Suits.

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1. It was very expensive, almost a $ 1000.00. 2. The interface was very cartoon-like and silly. 3. Cell phone coverage was kind of flaky back then. 4. No executive that wore a suit would sign a purchase order for thousands of dollars to a company called "General Magic".

Magic: a) a fictional thing in fantasy novels. b) Smoke and Mirrors on stage, deception, misdirection, trickery, fake.

Take something completely different that does not use a computer. Take a studio art class like drawing or sculpture. Improv theater. Social dance. Intro to piano. Photography. Physical exercise like swimming or archery. A foreign language. Turn off thee screen and enjoy life. Meet students who arn't geeks. Stretch your mind and your body.