{"id":179,"date":"2007-06-02T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/paradigm-shift-clear-memory-now\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:57:11","slug":"paradigm-shift-clear-memory-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2007\/paradigm-shift-clear-memory-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm Shift &#8211; Clear Memory Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been musing lately on why we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s because of our youth-obsessed culture and our focus on the newest and best, because of our tendency to prioritise on-the-job over traditional learning, or whether there&#8217;s simply too much in the &#8220;architect&#8217;s book of knowledge&#8221; (ABOK), and we all have to focus on the new to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>I explore two very different examples: the value of understanding RS232 in this 3G+ world, and some recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryard.com\/so\/2007\/01\/soa-algebra.htm\">discussions on service reliability<\/a>, both of which can be resolved using some quite old knowledge&#8230;. (<a href=\"\/thoughts\/memory.php\">Read More&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we in IT insist on forgetting so much valuable knowledge? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2007\/paradigm-shift-clear-memory-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}