Give developers a clear problem statement, provide gentle course correction when something’s not going well, but otherwise let the developers do their thing. His answer was as simple as it was brilliant. Don’t worry about speeds and feeds; focus on addressing everyday human needs, Design not as “how it looks”; design as “how it works”, Money not as end unto itself; money as both “fuel” and also the result of helping to improve the human condition, It’s possible for large organizations to do amazing things [1]. My job these days is essentially the same sort of architect as John, Scott, and Erich were on Jazz. Also, somehow I feel that calling myself an architect would be somehow gauche – like I’m sure Wes Anderson doesn’t refer to himself as an auteur and I know John Allspaw doesn’t use the phrase DevOps much. The above article is personal and does not necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. Our culture is the impetus for our success. Lo and behold, the first or second Google result had an Apple forum thread where someone explained that if you simply create a bogus new “Location” for your Networking preferences, it fixes the problem. But this isn’t to say that there’s no use to presentations. Each time you want to turn the iMac back into a standalone home computer, you need to give its display back and reconnect the wireless keyboard/trackpad with the iMac. When the telemarketer asks you a question, turn the phone off mute and indicate to your child that they should say the funny thing. Once you can do this, it’s straightforward – though a bit hacky – to use the Bluetooth keyboard / trackpad with the iMac -OR- the MacBook Pro, depending on what you’re trying to do. Approximately five minutes into the presentation, Erich asked, “This is nice, but where’s the demo?”, How do we solve problems? You can’t build good software without emotion – you have to care. I don’t think it was even a conscious thing – it was baked into their DNA. Below is the URL for the feed if you want to subscribe via a podcast app. A few days later, I asked my next door cube neighbor Pat Mueller what he thought of it and he made a face like “are you serious you dipshit?” and then said “I’ll try it in six months or so. So Saturday after my kids finished their Chinese school exam, I invited them to the home theater antechamber, where all the components live. Fast forward to this year. I don’t remember playing either very much, though like many families with young kids, I’m fairly certain we played a good amount of Wii Sports in the early days. The only “fix” was to power cycle the computer. Principal, Architect Before LEED entered the lexicon as an energy standard, Bill was already working on energy-conscious projects, sometimes halfway around the world. OTI had a wonderful development culture, which I learned about once I joined the Jazz team and over time embraced fully. Problem 2: Wi-fi networking would just crap out after several hours. They were John Wiegand, Erich Gamma, and Scott Rich. Brittany Higgins came forward this week with allegations she was raped in 2019, and now says she wants 'my perpetrator to face the full force of the law'. Child: “What’s a timeshare?”, Telemarketer:
'Today I have re-engaged with Australian Federal Police and will proceed with a formal complaint regarding the crime committed against me in what should be the safest building in Australia,' she said in a statement on Friday. Not good. (Optional) Configure your home networking to give the iMac a static IP address. It was approximately 2003 at IBM Research in Hawthorne New York, for an IBM Academy study on some software engineering topic. I really like the size and feel of the PS4 controllers much better than the bulkier Xbox 360 controllers. Alas, as of a couple of hours ago, all of my problems are fixed. Conservationist architect Bill Bensley inverts the typical zoo format for a wild new Hilton hotel project in China. She was kind of indifferent since she’s not into video games but she was also supportive because she knows I enjoy them. Also, at the time I was the breed of architect who spends all his time talking about business requirements and drawing the occasional UML diagram, while eschewing code. And I think this is the value of presentations – IF – and it’s a big “IF” – you do them right. I worked hard to create a good presentation that described the basic vision, architectural approach, and issues we expected. As of 02/15/2021 no related bill information has been received for H.R.339 - Secure U.S. Capitol Act Subjects (0) One Policy Area term, which best describes an entire measure, is assigned to every public bill or resolution. If not, it’s bad. All it takes is a phone with a mute button and a young child. A week later my wife told me that Target had suffered a major security breach and that she needed to review transactions. Text for S.3863 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes. I will provide more details to candidates. The ideal candidate is a junior or rising senior undergrad or graduate student in computer science or similar major. He looked at it and said “PS4? Must be extremely passionate about technology, an proficient hacker, and able to make progress without micromanagement/babysitting. He is currently a structural engineering partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM). http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderDevPodcast. After a couple of days of trying and failing, I trolled some Sony forums and it sounded like a common problem – something about Sony not being able to program ecommerce or something, which wasn’t too surprising when I recalled reading about their incompetence that lead to their own massive hack a few years ago. In the early days of Jazz, my manager was Scott Rich, and I remember when I first met him I was amazed by his technical knowledge and his ability to crank out hundreds of lines of good code. ‘It is the most radical immigration bill ever written, ever … I might come back to work stuff in a later entry, but this post is focused on my recent experience buying and using the new PlayStation 4 – or PS4 – video game console. Exceptional modern masterpiece designed by world renowned architect, Ulrich Franzen. My colleague John Ryding chided me with the same “from IDE to PowerPoint” line as I used with Scott several years ago. Before LEED entered the lexicon as an energy standard, Bill was already working on energy-conscious projects, sometimes halfway around the world. Problem 3: After a restart, user switch, or wake from sleep, the OS would report “Could not find any of your preferred wifi networks” and then proceed to show a list of available wifi networks… with my preferred network at the top of the list, which begs the question… if you can display the fracking network in the list, why can’t you connect to it? I think that’s the magic of Steve Jobs’ presentations – he’s a great storyteller and he describes the problems he’s trying to solve in very simple terms with which we can identify. I thought I would hold out until at least Christmas Eve, but after getting the system all set up and managing to buy some games, I couldn’t wait. A statue of Dr. Marcus Whitman has stood on display in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol for almost 70 years. Whenever you have a range of reaction like this, it usually means you’re on a point that people either find interesting, or care about, or both. Seanad Éireann debate - Thursday, 1 Oct 1953 Our culture attracts top people and empowers them to succeed. I hadn’t considered “How will people react?” when I tweeted, and I was surprised by the range of reaction across Twitter and Facebook. It will be because he fundamentally altered the intellectual and creative DNA of people who create technology. But of course there are harder classes of problems such as “What business model and technical strategy should we adopt for the next five to ten years?” or “What do I want to accomplish in life?” Of course, these examples are on the other extremes – essentially wicked problems – but I find most of the problems I deal with these days are more wicked than they are trivial. For instance, I didn’t even realize the Wii U was a nextgen console until maybe six months after its release – I thought it was just some Wii add-on. We looked at several technologies and ultimately chose to have a go with a single page Ajax/REST architecture that was inspired by Gmail, which was new at the time – in fact no one at IBM was using non-trivial Ajax in a product back then. The workaround was to restart the computer whenever networking crapped out. But what’s mesmerizing about it? In 2005 I joined the Rational Jazz project. They only gave us two requirements: we had to come up with an extensibility story to enable future products and it had to be cool. Bill DeBacker. 16 March, 2014 // 5. So I called the support number, and after providing a bogus quasi-explanation about something possibly being wrong with my credit card, the support person recommended paying with my credit card indirectly by using Paypal. Each time you want to use the iMac for work, you need to turn it into a glorified display for your MacBook Pro and connect the wireless keyboard/trackpad with the MacBook Pro. To quote Jony Ive, “How could it be any other way?” But of course, the presentation represents an end state. (Optional) Edit your MacBook Pro’s /etc/hosts file to alias the iMac’s static IP address with a shortname like ‘iMac’. Bill Higgins' Blog « PS4. Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), bill.higgins [at] smithgroup.comEmail (415) 365-3414, SmithGroup Boosts Mixed-Use Residential Design Expertise. During this conversation I learned that on the PS4, you don’t actually need to buy discs – you can download the same games, AppStore style. Now think about these principles in the context of architects you might have known. Telemarketer: “May I tell you about our new timeshares?” If I ever put the term ‘architect’ in my job title, I encourage you to punch me in the face. Here’s how it works: Use the iMac as a Display for Your Work Laptop. It then took me about 15 minutes to unbox and connect the PS4 to my home theater. non-bozos – are highly technical, work very closely with development, and still write important code. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 is a $2.3 trillion spending bill that combines $900 billion in stimulus relief for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for the 2021 federal fiscal year (combining 12 separate annual appropriations bills) and prevents a government shutdown. Former White House adviser Stephen Miller has slammed a plan from President Joe Biden as the ‘most radical’ bill ever written. What the leaders are, the people will soon become. Beyond doing his own coding for work and fun, he said that he regularly performs code reviews with his researchers. – My two year-old MacBook Pro has exhibited exactly zero problems since upgrading to Lion. ... A Look at NYC's Most Prolific Architect. Please give it a listen and tell what you think and if you have any feedback or topic suggestions. Bob has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Elaine Sargent. For instance, my first job on the Jazz team was to create our web UIs. After the presentation, the solution seems obvious. The Jazz team were the descendants of the Eclipse team and thus OTI, a late-1990s IBM acquisition. Washington state lawmakers are considering replacing the statue of Marcus Whitman on display in the U.S. Capitol with one of Billy Frank Jr. Child: “I like purple flowers.”, I remember him telling me – in a very polite way – that I was basically a bozo for calling myself an architect, Started a podcast with Coté – Under Development, this classic 2001 article from Joel Spolsky, Looking for Co-ops for DevOps/Cloud Project, things-fall-apart-the-center-does-not-hold, Use the same computer in all situations so that I only have to manage one configuration, Use a large display for improved productivity, My family has an all-in-one computer that’s easy to use. I was relatively young at the time (28) and it was pretty cool when I saw a meeting invite to present to Erich Gamma on my technical area – “web UIs”. At first we got annoyed but one day by chance I found a way to have some fun. So I was surprised one Saturday morning in mid-Decemember when I walked into the local Target at 8:10 AM, planning to get something else and asked the guy in the video game area “So when will it be easy to get an Xbox One or PS4?” He said in a very serious voice “The time is now!” and told me that they had received about a dozen Xbox Ones and half a dozen PS4s that morning. A couple of other nice features I’ve discovered since day one: Now it’s time to take the kids for a walk around the neighborhood. You do not learn by agreeing with people. This time though it’s not an Extreme Blue project, it’s a Summer/Fall co-op. My only speculation can be that the folks developing the new hardware and new software were testing with the previous generation of each others’ stuff. Let’s just say that in two months of work, it didn’t go well. Bill Higgins is an IBM Distinguished Engineer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He said this has bi-directional benefits. The … If interested, send me an email (bhiggins@us.ibm.com) with the word “co-op” somewhere in the subject line. I tried this and for reasons I won’t even attempt to comprehend, it worked. deployment, monitoring) work together seamlessly to allow us to evolve IT and other types of living systems (e.g. A couple of years ago I was at the O’Reilly campus in Sebastopol for some meetings prior to Foo Camp. My Twitter posts, which are public, automatically propagate to my Facebook timeline, which is private. My view these days is that you have to work in a very iterative manner to learn at a concrete level, then take a step back and reflect on the problem you’re trying to solve and how, rinse and repeat. So I returned Knack and didn’t buy any other games. Unfortunately there’s many more examples of the former than the latter. Events + 2019 New York City Police Foundation Gala? They go right ahead with their pitch, even when the person answering the phone obviously sounds like a young child. Alexander’s chatbot. He said “What’s that?” and I said “Read it”. And for his developers, he’s able to provide insights based on his deep and broad experience and also connect dots across projects and researchers. I don’t know how to articulate this in conceptual terms – I just really have come to believe that if you can’t tell a compelling story, you’re doomed to failure or at best mediocrity. Prototyping helps you understand the problem. I use Pocket Casts on my iPhone. I don’t have a full thesis worked out in my head, so I’ll explain my feelings through a series of stories from my career. The location is Research Triangle Park, North Carolina from May to December 2012. From a problem solving perspective, the interesting part is what happened that you didn’t see that led up to the presentation. At the time, my primary work goal was always “get promoted, get promoted” so I had managed to move from development to architecture in just a year and a half. It took me approximately 2 1/2 hours to disconnect the Xbox 360, find the original box, and put all of the original parts back into the box in a somewhat reasonable way. How will it be different? According to the website, Green’s efforts were attracted to the projects by Olean’s Frank Higgins, then a state senator, after Green’s work on Higgins’ home. In the same timeframe, Apple released the iPhone and the iPad and I did the majority of my game playing on them – still a small amount, probably a few hours a month – but greater than on the Wii and Xbox, where each time we’d play, we’d have to replace dead batteries. Mafia III es un videojuego de acción-aventura de mundo abierto desarrollado por la compañía estadounidense Hangar 13 y distribuido por 2K Games para Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 y Xbox One en octubre de 2016. This meant that I had to maintain two configurations and try to keep them in sync as much as possible, which as anyone with any experience knows, ends up being a constant annoyance. I tried this and – voilà! But prototyping alone doesn’t solve the problem. Without it we could not exist. A few hours later during a Foo Camp barbecue, I introduced myself and asked him how a super senior guy like him was able to keep it real and stay technical. Since I don’t have to share my computer with my family at work, I just connect the Thunderbolt Display to the MacBook Pro using using the monitor’s Thunderbolt Cable and use Bluetooth to connect the keyboard/trackpad to the MacBook Pro and I’m done. Prototyping helps constrain the solution to the adjacent possible, as opposed to the fantastical. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. But prototyping is not enough to solve the problem. In the previous generation I bought both a Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360. And because of this, they could confidently delegate quite a bit of technical decision-making – even architectural decisions – to these developers. It forces me to take a step back from the code and try to clearly articulate what we’re building and why it’s valuable. Here’s how it works. A Steve Jobs presentation is mesmerizing. Billy Higgins Architects May 2003 - Present 17 years 10 months Architectural Technologist with 7 years experience in Retail, residential, commercial, conservation, health … I generally use Apple TV to watch purchased movies, but for some reason the six Star Wars still aren’t available on iTunes, despite many emails to Tim Cook on this topic. After that I read some PS4 game reviews. I remember when Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard came out a few years ago, I updated the day it was released. Bill Higgins. For him, it helps him keep current on emerging techniques and technologies since his researchers are always on the cutting edge. Have a good evening.” The basic game is to tell your child funny things to say while your phone is on mute. To me the magic of the Steve Jobs presentation is that he shows us how to complete a puzzle that’s been unsolved for several years. Child: “I saw the new Winnie Pooh with my friend Jill and Jill’s nanny Jaqlyn”, Telemarketer: (longer pause) “May I transfer you over to a sales specialist?” One project, a government building in the Philippines, “was at the forefront,” he says, “reducing by half its energy budget and introducing natural concepts of daylighting, ventilation and solar shading in a tropical climate.” Along with the design work, Bill values “the advancement of mutual respect and collegiality with our international professional colleagues.” His credentials, in fact, include an honorary membership in the ALA-Assoarchitetti/Italy. A hundred years from now, the world will be very different than if Steve Jobs had never lived. Given a little free time, you might find Bill back in Italy, where "I would settle in Castellina, a small town in the Chianti region,” he explains, “and bond with the local community.” Back home in California, Bill unwinds by reading, baking and casting a fly rod. Simon’s point was that I hadn’t done anything interesting enough to call myself an architect. Repeat until the telemarketer finally gives up. Publish your architectural projects today and get featured. I don’t just mean Apple; there are a large number of technologists outside of Apple whose views on design and engineering have been shaped by Jobs and Apple circa 1997 to 2011.
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