Retweet March 2011
From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development
- Worst than coder’s block is coder’s shiny tech infinite loop.
- I got 99 problems and a bug ain’t one.
- I’m a rockstar ninja guru mofo byte code copy editor.
- If you could Myers-Briggs test your code what type would your code be and what type of developer would that make you?
- Are you test driven or bug driven development?
- Spiderman had his spidey sense and I have my buggy sense and it is tingling.
- Software bugs can byte my shiny metal ass.
- Code is a continuum.
- Mo data, mo problems.
- Let there be APIs.
- “Hello, World” is a programmer’s first program. Blog engine is a web developer’s first web app. Consultant’s first product, time management application.
- Duh, #debugging.
- Code is never complete.
- Code less, debug less.
- I’m a bandwagon programmer!
- This is not the code you are looking for.
- I break for bugs.
- My code runs more than you.
Team Dynamics
- Passion is not a fruit, it’s a seed.
- Pitch your passion.
- Self help gurus first help themselves.
- If you are waiting for tomorrow you will always be waiting.
- In the evening be exhausted, in the morning exhilarated.
- Great ideas don’t join country clubs.
- Inside a large risk is a large reward, you just need to know how to unwrap it and then monetize it.
- Meetings begets meetings
- It’s not how the ball is pitched to you, it’s how you hit the ball, duh #winning.
- Replace “what if” with “when and how.”
- The way you think of a problem affects the way you think of the solution.
- Everybody lives in there own bubble, expand yours.
Product Placement
- I’m confused as to which photo service we are all supposed to use this month, flickr, picasa, twitpic, instangram, picplz, plixi, color, etc
- Color app seems like Bump for pictures.
- Why is the director of the FBI emailing my AOL email account from a io domain?
- 3G forecast: partly spotty with chances of AT&T fail.
- Out of all of Apple’s products, Jobs’ best revenue generating product must be the iPhone earbuds. At $30, it has $.50 of material.
- I’ve lost count, would Google Circles be Google’s third or fourth social networking attempt?
- Outlook should have a Save As option to save as a Word document.
- What Google giveth Google taketh away with one change in their algo.
- Ikea has made a killing by selling designer cardboard.
Quotes
- Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That’s how much that paper is worth. – Linus Torvalds
- Seeing companies promote their Facebook fan page in advertisements reminds me of when companies promoted their AOL keyword. – @bencasnocha
- Every software package expands until it can send email. – Zawinski’s Law
- One great rock show can change the world. – School of Rock
Questions
- How many tweets does it take change a light bulb and start trending?
- Do you live in the moment or in a hurry to get to the next moment?
- Is #SXSW the equivalent to #Woodstock but for social media experts and tech hipsters?
- Forget Scientology, what Hollywood religion is Charlie Sheen practicing where he is a warlock and lives with goddesses?
- If William of Occam worked at Gillette how many blades would Occam’s razor have?
- Is Chris Brown the next Dennis Rodman?
The Valley
- There is a “lifestyle business” bubble.
- To VCs, startup founders are like dogs to be sorted by pedigree.
- Is it a bubble if you can’t afford to invest in a seed round?
- Everybody is scared of a little bubble.
- Forget about building a better mouse trap, think about building a better people trap.
- Some party like a rock star, I party like a VC.
Technologist
- Single sign-on is something that should be native in the browser.
- Love thy neighbors, like thy Facebook friends, and retweet they twitter followers.
- People like liking.
- Tell me what smart phone you have and I’ll tell you everything about you, especially of you have it unlocked.
- Terms of Service do not void your constitutional rights.
- Love thy neighbors, like thy Facebook friends, and retweet they twitter followers.
- If there ever is a a zombie attack just remember that the Googleplex has the biggest brains, Hollywood and Washington not so big.
Tweeple
- Mr. Zuckerberg, tear down this walled garden.
- Mr. Jobs, fix my iPhone.
- I think Aaron Sorkin should write a treatment for a movie based on Stuxnet.
- Jeff Bezos to serialize his brain and store it Amazon’s cloud and allow developers to access it via an API.
Japanese Earthquake
- My heart goes out to the Fukushima 50 and all the search and rescue workers.
- I have the same feeling, level of disbelief and sense of magnitude, about Japan now as I did about New York after September 11.
- Earthquake + Tsunami + Nuclear + Meltdown = (Me Praying for the People of Japan)^8.7
- Wow, the Japan quake at 8.9 is 700x stronger than the Haiti earthquake.
- There is no match to the “shock and awe” that Mother Nature can produce in matter of minutes.
- I <3 Japan
- Stay strong Japan! If there is any country that can recover from two nuclear bombs, multiple Godzilla attacks, and a 8.9 quake Japan can.