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Software Engineering
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In the mid-1990s, a new employee of Sun Microsystems in California kept disappearing from their database. Every time his details were entered, the system seemed to eat him whole; he would disappear without a trace. No one in HR could work out why poor Steve Null was database kryptonite. The staff in HR were entering the surname as “Null,” but they were blissfully unaware that, in a database, NULL represents a lack of data, so Steve became a non-entry. To computers, his name was Steve Zero or Ste
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― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.
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― The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
― The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
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