April 2009
24 posts
Demos, not Memos
I like this.
The sales job got easier. The abstract became concrete. The conversations changed from “what do you mean by” to “what if we did this.”
37 Signals
“I prefer “The other White Flu”
– i’m sick of hearing about “swine flu.” let’s call it “bacon lung,” instead. : reddit.com
“His conclusion, delivered with a lovely irony, was the the copy-paste solution...”
– Crap Code Inevitable? Rumblings from ACCU.
Bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover →
I knew it.
“Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can...”
– Alan Kay
“Michigan State and Kentucky are like NCSU for Roy, except you have to get on a...”
– insidecarolina.com
WatchDouglas Crockford: “Quality” on Yahoo! Video
Fantastic video on software quality.
Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage? →
This is an oldie, but I say the points have even more weight in an age where most people can’t be bothered to write more than 140 characters to convey their thoughts.
Sysadmin Aphorisms →
These work for software engineering as well, and probably some of them work for engineering as a whole.
“Several years ago I was stuck in a data centre over night upgrading our systems...”
– Hacker News | Several years ago I was stuck in a data centre over night upgrading our systems …
One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”
tweenbots
The Meters - Ain't No Use
Department of Eagles - Forty Dollar Rug
Writing calculus books seems to be profitable →
Rasheed Wallace Has Greatest Dream Where He Uses... →
Rasheed Wallace Has Greatest Dream Where He Uses Headband As Basketball Slingshot And Scores A Million Points