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Adult leadership
Just for grins, I recently Googled my (now-defunct) former employer and ran across this interesting series of comments on a Seattle Post-Intelligencer venture capital blog. All I’ll say is, it’s nice...
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Link roundup
Sad, I know. I had dreams of getting some serious blogging done while I was on vacation, but they all vanished in a haze of roadside attractions and chile rellenos. Instead, you get these tidbits:...
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Lean software development
The other groups at my current employer make fun of our group for having too many meetings. Our group makes fun of them for not getting anything done. (Okay, I’m exaggerating. Mostly.) But it’s true...
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I know what let’s not do again
If I wanted a career in forensic system administration, I could have had one, you know? I’m just saying. But it looks like we’re back up.
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Software is fiction
It’s hard for me to believe I’ve never run across Richard Gabriel’s essay Lessons from the Science of Nothing at All before. Suppose you wanted to design and build a gas stove, but no one had ever used...
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Google officially now just another tech company
(X-posted to Chrononautic Log.) Layoffs, office closings, and — most telling, I think anyone who’s been through a Silicon Valley inflection point will agree — the end of the free cafeteria. Lean...
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Thank you…
…to whoever at Sun decided it would be a good idea for java.awt.geom.Point2D and java.awt.Point to override equals() and hashCode() even though they’re mutable. That’s four hours of my life I’m never...
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GeekGenderFail ’09
(X-posted to Chrononautic Log) It’s good to know the science fiction community isn’t the only one capable of major fail, I guess. From Martin “Refactoring” Fowler, “Smut On Rails” (emphases added): A...
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Noted without comment
Bruno S. Frey (1993), “Shirking or work morale? : The impact of regulating,” European Economic Review 37(8), 1523-1532, abstract: Standard economics assumes that rational agents shirk, and that they...
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