Rand and Rickover; Interesting Similarities
For some reason, this popped into my head while listening to Ayn from khalling's post.
Both Rand and Rickover were very intelligent, sharp, cutting, and spoke with blinding clarity. Both from Russia (Rickover from Poland, at the time occupied by the Tsar). Both jewish heritage. Both wildly successful in establishing a philosophy, Rand's Objectivism and Rickover's Nuclear Navy.
Do others see the parallels and/or have other observations about their similarities, or other connections?
I knew another much older engineer, while working early in my career, who was also from Russia, It shocked me to hear it. Absolutely no accent, whatsoever, and he came to the US at 14. Also very, very sharp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G...
Both Rand and Rickover were very intelligent, sharp, cutting, and spoke with blinding clarity. Both from Russia (Rickover from Poland, at the time occupied by the Tsar). Both jewish heritage. Both wildly successful in establishing a philosophy, Rand's Objectivism and Rickover's Nuclear Navy.
Do others see the parallels and/or have other observations about their similarities, or other connections?
I knew another much older engineer, while working early in my career, who was also from Russia, It shocked me to hear it. Absolutely no accent, whatsoever, and he came to the US at 14. Also very, very sharp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G...
Totally agree with you about the feel of the keys and the weight of the calculator.
When the 32S was discontinued, it acquired value as a collectible. I sold it and its box and bought a 33S. I still like the feel of an HP with real buttons much better than any app.
That's how I feel about the good old days: glad they were here but even gladder they're gone.
BTW, I'm pretty sure you can run OS9 on a Raspberry PI. Cool little OS.
The good old days. Glad they are gone, glad they were here.
Things have really improved, though so much of my stuff has gone obsolete with no way to use all those floppy disks and DOS stuff. I wonder when DVDs will go obsolete for some new storage system? All to the good though. I do number theory and sometime need to do million digit math which would be way to slow on previous generations of computers. It is amazing how far things went back before electronic calculators where there were slide rules and some sometimes fun to watch mechanical calculators doing multiplications and divisions. I recall photos of some guys at the Skunkworks with slide rules working on the Blackbird stealth spy plane. That was back in the days when log tables were still useful.
The worst example was the three dimenisonal filing program i forget which company they bought to get it. Foxpro i think. Excellent. THe MS Version featured a sample and if you didn't need many changes could be used as is but for most businesses no. Building your own eventually bogged down the computer and it crashed for no space available. You may remember the little lines you drew from one device to another which decided where whatever was to be stored, upgraded, cached, archived etc. THe MS version did not erase the lines when you erased them on the screen. Soon it was a mass of straight line spaghetti. Their answer was hire a programmer. We thought about it and did. Two high school kids. they worked with the small mom and pop businesses and then up to one's more advanced in needs and paid for college Wasn't that big a deal IF you knew what you guys know but for a veteran computer crasher it was Audie Murphy time. Two years i ran into someone suffering through that same program manual on the London subways. Same problem. she was a programmer. but had missed that solution. But she bought me dinner! Ha ha her company sent me a check. So that's my whole career in your career field. Must have been the demo dude background from the Army. Fire In the hole! And I never envied you bubble heads. parachutes don't work underwater.
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