Jan 2 2012

Retweet December 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.

Software Development

  • Being into computers today is not the same as it was in my day when you had to solder chips into boards, now it means you are on Facebook.
  • I don’t know why you would fake such a thing but there are a lot of fake self described geeks.
  • This holiday season remember to backup if don’t already have a backup system in place.

Thought Leadership

  • Life has a funny way to keep you humble.
  • Focus on simplicity, complexity is overrated.
  • Whether I see the glass half full or half empty largely depends on what is in the glass to begin with.
  • To much of a good thing is a bad thing. Not enough of a good thing is also a bad thing.
  • No brain, no gain.
  • There is no such thing as cheap thrills, only cheap tricks.

Product Placement

  • I just realized that I have five phone numbers connected to my iPhone.
  • Not feeling the new Twitter app. It feels like it requires too many clicks to do anything.
  • Every parking lot should be covered with an array of solar panels. Some parking lots take more area than the base of the building.
  • I hate when sites and apps require Facebook Connect to sign up. #pinterest
  • I bet that Taco Bell taco shells are made in China.
  • Like a true politician, Go Daddy flip flopped on the issue and now claims it does not support SOPA. #WhoDroppedTheSOPA
  • Google Grinch: No Ice Cream Sandwich for Galaxy S, first Galaxy Tab, or original Nexus.
  • The one feature that had been overlooked in Android is the ability to take a screenshot of your Android device.

Quote

  • I’m putting you on the do not kill list. – Bender Bending RodrÃŒguez
  • The truth is often stupid. – Bender Bending RodrÃŒguez
  • Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what’s good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers. – jwz
  • Let’s go and invent tomorrow. – Steve Jobs

Question

  • Who moved my cheese and then cut said cheese?
  • Who is doing some last minute shopping?
  • How many domains do you own?
  • Church’s or Popeyes?
  • Ancient Aliens or Modern Morons?
  • If you could go back in time and would be stuck in prehistoric time, what skill would you need most to survive?
  • If Mr Grinch is so mean what do you think Mrs Grinch is like?
  • If the world is flat why aren’t international phone rates flat themselves?
  • A touch device is a complicated device with many components, what are the chances that the Galaxy Tab would look identical to the iPad?

Randumb

  • Looking forward to the future!
  • Old Internet memes don’t die, they go remixed, go viral, and trend.
  • It’s rumored that the same maker that built a weight scale with a built it twitter client that tweets your weight is working on a toilet.
  • Money can’t buy you love but it can sure buy some lap dances.
  • When it comes to teenage love, forever doesn’t last long.
  • The surprise is the prize.
  • Empty space is the enemy of clutter.
  • You are the chaos/cause of you.
  • You are the cause of you because you.
  • It is what it will be and it will be what has been.
  • Happy whatever the fuck you celebrate tonight.
  • The Internet was invented for the sharing of funny cat videos and pictures.
  • Make a right at the 3rd dimension and you are here.
  • The best part of nothing is everything.
  • Negative ideas manifest into real feelings
  • Gift wrapping ain’t going so merry.
  • If there is a way to hurt yourself with a tape dispenser I’ve done it… Why is my lip bleeding!?
  • I think that The Terminator is the beginning of a long war against the machines that culminates with The Matrix.

Overheard

  • OH: Annoying people are really annoying.
  • OH: I would love to enjoy my own depression if I only I didn’t have to deal with other people’s depression.
  • OH: I wish my life was an 80’s movie.
  • OH: To be honest, I’m not being honest.

Nov 28 2011

Retweet October 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.

Software Development

  • To checkin or not to checkin a large changelist five minutes before you go home, that is the question?
  • A test like a good movie, has three parts: the setup, the car chase, and the test of the results.
  • Testing is like a tax, you have to pay 5-10% to have a good running infrastructure or system.
  • Testing takes time, make sure you make the time, because it will save you time in the long run.
  • All programmers have a black belt in hubris.
  • One bytecode to rule them all.

Thought Leadership

  • Your miles may vary, but it often depends on your attitude.
  • Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities
  • Sometimes you can’t afford to lose a client, but there are other times you can’t afford keep your client.
  • Just like there should be no hard coded strings there should be no unwritten rules, or assumptions, or specifications.
  • The dumbest people I’ve ever encountered are those that think that the rest of the 99.99% of people are a bunch of idiots.
  • If you are unique no one can compete with you.
  • Team meetings should not feel like an AA meeting, “Hi, I’m bob and I work here.”

Product Placement

  • I’ve used the iPhone apps for Google Voice and G+ and I have to say, Google does not know how to make a good iOS app.
  • I’m not liking the new Google Reader look. I would not be surprised if the next version of Google design has ribbons.
  • Leave no smart phone behind. Google won’t upgrade the Nexus One to Android 4.0.
  • Google is set to update its motto to “Do no evil if you ain’t getting paid for such evil.”
  • Android is to Google what Internet Explorer was to Microsoft in the Browser Wars. MS gave IE for free just to take out Netscape.
  • Siri is to Apple what Kinect is to XBox what Facebook Connect is to Facebook what Circles are to Google Plus…
  • Every time I upgrade a MS product an angel loses his wings.
  • Is Amazon also adopting social networking features? I just noticed that Amazon has a like button on its product pages.
  • Facebook should update its mission “to trick people to over share and make the world more open, connected, and trackable.”
  • Google should update its mission “to organize the world’s information about our users and make it accessible and useful to our advertisers.”
  • @att has two options in terms of text messages. Pay as you use for $0.20 or unlimited for $20. What about a third option, disable texting altogether?
  • Why does it cost half of the price of a stamp to send or receive a text? It’s endemic of an industry that has no competition or innovation.
  • The Kindle Fire tablet is a modern day physical shopping cart for Amazon’s virtual online store.
  • History is being made every day, yet @historychannel airs reruns of Ancient Alien.

Quotes

  • OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. – Steve Jobs’ Last Words
  • I’m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead. – Bender Bending Rodriguez
  • Goodbye monobrains – Bender Bending Rodriguez
  • There is no recession for great companies… – Jason Calacanis
  • Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free. – Linus Torvalds
  • Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is success. – Henry Ford
  • When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

Randumb

  • On Monday mornings we are all zombies.
  • Why am I listening to old school British punk rock? #GodSpankTheQueen
  • The truth is that truth is absolutely relative.
  • And then God said, “Let there be bacon,” and there was bacon. God saw that the bacon was delicious.
  • You’re so vain, you probably think this tweet is about you.
  • Fist pump for peace.
  • Anybody that gets lost in a corn maze is an absolute moron.
  • I hate Lifetime movies!
  • Business is legitimate thievery.
  • Some of the most common elements on earth idiotum and dumbtonium.
  • meta-disrupt: Disrupt those disrupting disruption.
  • I am, therefore I meme.

Thought Equations

  • Meaning > money
  • problem = opportunity
  • means != ends
  • Success > Perfection
  • Experience != Information
  • Thinking > Knowing
  • Do > try
  • Platform > product
  • Creation > criticism
  • Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities

Million Dollar Ideas

  • Million Dollar Idea: Online Speed Dating Site
  • Million dollar idea: a news channel with nothing but news tickers…
  • Million Dollar Idea: self cleaning floors.