Software, Business, and Life
Feb 17 2009
From http://www.theodoregray.com/BrainRot/index.html “The most profound engine of civilization is the inability of a larger and larger fraction of the population to do the basic things needed to survive. Many people fail to realize this.” “Technology’s greatest contribution is to permit people to be incompetent at a larger and larger range of things. Only by embracing [...]
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Aug 21 2008
Alex Miller declared a Giles Bowkett talk (purportedly about “Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator”) the best presentation ever. I was skeptical. Wow. “Best Ever” is an overstatment of course; but it’s worth your 45 minutes and then some.
May 31 2008
To help create the document I mentioned earlier about the merits of custom software development, I hired a subcontract writer. The only typing I did was a bit at the start and perhaps a half-hour of editing at the end; all the rest of my input was in the form of spoken-word audio recordings, which [...]
May 25 2008
I recently heard from a developer who worked on a project here for about one year, several years back. I won’t name or quote him directly; the essence of his message was: He learned a lot during that year. This learning was a turning point in his career. What he learned has proved lucrative. Of [...]
May 24 2008
I have ongoing difficulty doing enough writing, for there is so much interesting material to read instead. Were this not true, you’d now be reading a longer and more informative post.
May 21 2008
I’m writing this up as advice to a rhetorical “you”, but it’s really written to a younger version of me. Imagine that you are working on a project for a customer (or employer), who has a weekly or monthly budget limit. You are paid by the hour, for up to N hours per week; or [...]
