Oct
15
2010
Retweet September 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
- Email is not the future of UI. I dislike services that use email for data entry or input device.
- Common source of errors, cut and paste!
- Functional specifications are often times as misinterpreted as the Bible.
- I’m a programmer by day, developer by night, and hacker in between.
- Some features are disguised as bugs.
- One man’s feature is another man’s bug.
- Void is my favorite return type.
- Code Commandment: No code shall PrintStackTrace
- Show me your implementation and I’ll tell you about yourself.
- The words “it does not compute” does not compute, they are not in my default dictionary.
- Get your hack on!
- When a developer says, “pretty much working” it does not mean production quality.
- I’m not sure that a software application larger than “Hello, World” can be bug free.
- If there is a giant red ‘Do Not Press’ or ‘Active Dooms Day Device’ button, someone will press it.
- Every design decision should be a conscious choice, not an accidental assumption.
- Will work for intellectual stimulation.
- If you are a User Generated Content site saying you will censor a topic will only inspire your users to find ways around that.
- What’s your default setting for the Ultimate Bitch Mode setting?
Team Dynamics
- Just like how there are no any stupid questions, there are no any stupid ideas.
- In order to get the most out of crowd sourcing you need to source your crowd.
- Look past people’s past.
- If you are going to shot for the stars you best have a rocket ship.
- When the stars align, shoot for them. And if you shooting for the stars you best bring the big guns!
- When shooting for the stars I bring an Klingon Bird of Prey!
- And on the 8th day God said, “Let there be a TPS report.”
- Life is too short to sell yourself short.
- Don’t think in problems. Dream in solutions.
- Never say maybe.
- The next big thing usually starts as a small idea.
- People will always push your buttons, you need to know how o deactivate those buttons.
- I don’t fear being wrong. I fear not being able to recognize when other people are wrong.
- You can’t delete emails once sent, but you can read them before you send them.
- For every great idea there are hundreds of ways to mess it up.
- Show me the monetization.
Product Placement
- Mark Zuckerborg is a geek super evil privacy villain.
- Boing Boing should just sell out to Rupert Murdoch.
- Panda Express’ logo says, “Gourmet Chinese Food.” Really, Gourmet? Chinese?
- American Apparel might file for bankruptcy, maybe China can buy it out and rename it to Chairman Mao Apparel.
- The company Manpower has a very male chauvinist sounding name.
- If only mother nature would have patented all her innovations, we would all be paying royalties to her.
- Why does it cost $30 for Apple’s iPhone earphones? They like $.50 worth of material and $.25 of labor!
- If you Google for love you will find about 1,930,000,000 results (0.23 seconds). At least one of those results is meant for you.
- Google Finance should have a “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
- The cake is a lie. Do no evil is a lie.
- The next version of the iPhone should be called ivePhone after it’s designer Jony Ive.
- Upset that I’ve had to purchase yet another iPhone headset!!! At $30 a pop the white earphone are Apple’s razor blade business!
Resume Writing Tips
- Resume Writing Tip: Use a good phone line for a phone interview.
- Resume Writing Tip: At a minimum candidate should be able to figure out our URL by a) clicking the link on job description b) from my email.
- Resume Writing Tip: The minimum research a candidate needs to do is lookup the company website himself prior to interviewing.
- Resume Writing Tip: Ensure your cover letter or email is in one font, it shouldn’t look like you cut and pasted from somewhere else.
- Resume Writing Tip: I would leave out MS Access 2000 out of technical skills. It’s also not necessary to list HTML, DHTML, and HTML5.
- Resume Writing Tip: Proof read your resume and fix obvious typos, you can’t say you detailed oriented if you have basic spelling errors.
Quote
- I want to put a ding in the universe. – Steve Jobs
- The problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. – Daring Fireball
- They [People] want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. – Eric Schmidt
- People aren’t ready for the technology revolution that’s going to happen to them. – Eric Schmidt