Retweet July 2010
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
- If developers think that QA is going to find all their design problems, they are doing it wrong.
- Code wants to be dynamic.
- Unlike what it sounds like, Extreme Programming isn’t a spectator sport where you jump off a ramp with your favorite IDE.
- The web needs an open standard API for user badges and achievements.
- Social network sites should adopt a open standard API for user badges and achievements!
- The user interface made me do it!
- Show me the money, show me the data.
- Technology will date you, as in it will give away your age, like if your used a floppy vs a thumb drive vs neural memory implant..
- I’m sure Hallmark has a card for that, to show our appreciation to the QAs in our lives.
- The meek shall inherit the earth, the geek shall inherit an earth simulation on some social virtual game running on the cloud.
- Can you debug dreams?
- Men are digital, women are analog.
- Refactor yourself!
- Trust No Technology
Team Leadership
- Good things come to those that make them happen.
- Cut out the 20% from Pareto’s Principle from your process.
- Follow your dreams and you will be your own leader!
- Our attitude affects the outcome of our experiences and that is reflected in our perspective which influences our attitude.
- Fear is a virus of the mind!
- Some people are proud instead of productive.
- Sometimes we need to accept and move forward before we can understand.
- One persons Epic Fail is another’s FTW!
- If you don’t remember when you took a vacation last, you need a vacation!
- There are somethings that we are just not going to understand, but that we need to accept.
- If better is not easier and cheaper then it’s not.
- Just because something is better (function) doesn’t mean it’s better (form).
- You have to feed, exercise, and train your creativity before you can make it work for you.
Product Placement
- GIA: Google Intelligence Agency. FBI: FaceBook of Investigations.
- Is Facebook too big to fail or just big enough to get regulated?
- And then Steve Jobs said, “Let there be multi-touch.”
- Cost Plus World Market should really rename itself to 3rd World Market since they mostly sell trinkets from under developed world.
- CVS has the widest and weirdest selection, they sell everything from hard liquor to underwear. It’s basically my party supply store.
- Someone should invent foursquare for fictional places, I would like to check I the Star Wars Cantina.
- I wish iTunes could organize songs by mood in addition to genre and album.
Overheard
- OH: Awww, that gansta cute.
- OH: Travel is my drug of choice, I rather go on a real trip than a hallucinogenic trip.
- OH: I woke up so tired from that dream because I was running in it.
- OH: It’s very hard sometimes to think on your own.
- OH: when you are a parent and are dealing with your kids, you have to be the bigger person.
- OH: I’m sorry for whatever I did in your dream that made you upset, trust me that is not typical of my behavior in other people’s dreams.
- OH: It’s not that you did anything wrong, it’s that you didn’t do anything spectacular.
Quotes
- Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. – Anonymous
- Everyone specializes in their own area of weakness. – Rothbard’s Law
- Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. – Wirth’s Law
- It is not how much you make that counts, but how much money you keep. – Robert Kiyosaki
- All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you. – Prince
- Hope. Deleted – Emotionless Wine Bucket #futurama
- There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach
- Control the music industry? Check. Control the publishing industry? Check. Control-alt-delete? Never. – @ceoSteveJobs
- I bet if they had Yelp in 1850, nobody would have taken the Oregon Trail. – @badbanana
- People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy. – Jeffrey Gitomer
- Welcome, to the real world. – Morpheus
- I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. – HAL
- Would you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict? – John Waters