Juixe Techknow

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

• The future is written in code, probably in JavaScript.
• Remember when the best way to debug JavaScript was to use alerts and document.write?
• Software is the new alchemy.
• When fixing a bug, the coding of the solution is the easiest part, but not necessarily the most import.
• TLDs I would like to see: .app, .js, .rb, .py, .twt, .lol, .anon, .beer, .bit, .woot
• If you would see this code I’ve working with you would think it had dyslexia.
• Just Do It: Refactor it. Abstract it. Centralize it. Generalize it.
• Software development is a team sport for people that were most likely not good at sports.
• Working Code > Perfect Code
• Never assume, always test.
• Trust no cloud.
• Don’t be eval().

Thought Leadership

• Seek out silver bullets instead of reaching out to golden hammers.
• Quality is something you engineer for.
• The first thing you create should be quality itself.
• When you have no QA, everyone does QA.
• When you feel like there are no options, there are still options.
• Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes.
• Simple ideas can go a long way.
• There is often no quick solutions to deep problems.
• If you are going to dream, might as well dream big.
• I eat top priorities for breakfast.
• When you get new top priorities that displace the top priorities you received hours prior and didn’t get to because of previous priorities.
• Sometimes you have to up your game, other times you have to up your competition. If you don’t lose much you might be in the minor leagues.

Product Placement

• I remember that about two years ago I tweeted that RIM should have been renamed RIP. I got a lot of flack then, I don’t thin I will now.
• What does it mean when 7 out or the top 10 free apps from the Play marketplace are from Google?
• Posted in my iPhone: iPhone is a blood gadget. #rareearth #minerals
• I would like Apple to make a dual touch screen phone… Where on screen slides out to give you double the screen real estate.
• The way I described the recent partial eclipse.. Like the world had a giant Instagram filter on.
• Transformers, GI Joe, Snurfs, and now Battleship… What other 80′s toy/cartoon will be renamed as a movie? Hungry Hungry Hippos?
• VMware is hilarious, they sent me email for a Mother’s Day sale on VMware Fusion. Yes, that’s exactly what my mom wants for Mother’s Day!
• The Angry Birds franchise has been so successful that I’ve thought about creating a mobile game, how about Mildly Irritated Donkeys?
• Everyone should be Photoshop literate.
• I can’t wait until American Idol relaunches with a more appropriate name, Auto-tune Idol.
• I don’t do anything against the ToS but I’m so paranoid about Google disabling my account, I have a separate accounts for each service I use

Randumb

• NASA has found a space lake that has “140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans.” Imagine, deep space/ocean fishing.
• Water is a key ingredient of life, imagine the space tuna that can be found in this space lake, trillions of times larger than our oceans.
• You are not a battery of negative energy, don’t store, hold, or consume bad energy.
• If I am going to have an imaginary friend I am going to sleep with it.. Imaginary friend with benefits.
• Truth is simple, peoples reasoning for the truth is what is complicated.
• When I’m constipated, instead of taking a laxative I eat McDonald’s food.
• We have the technology to make everything dead simple.
• Warning in allergy medication: Do not use if you have an allergic reaction to this product or any of its ingredients.
• As a futurist I am disappointed with what the future has become.
• You got to find yourself by doing something rather waiting for something.
• By definition, anything that is viral is a fad.
• Too much of nothing is never enough.

FB IPO

• Zuckerborg may go down in history as having scammed everyone he met… She scammed his classmates, co-founder, users, and now investors…
• In Zuck we don’t trust.
• Zuck really fooled everyone, the Winklevii, Saverin, users, competitors, wall street bankers, institutional investors, …
• Classic FB/Zuck… Days after the IPO there are already lawsuits regarding impropriety, irregular, and illegal activities.
• Facebook wants to make organ donation social. I Like your new liver.
• When Zuckerborg dies, he wants to be buried with a hoodie.
• Will Zuck have a second act? Facebook wont last 5 years on likes alone.
• I’ve never paid for sex or likes. #facebook #IPO
• I’m unfriending Facebook.

As the saying goes, if a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. It has been proven that doing a thing right the first time is most efficient and cost effective. But what is the cost of doing something wrong? In terms of money, I’ve seen cases where something is done incorrectly and then had to redone at a loss of $100k. In terms of time, you can model it in the following thought experiment.

If a task takes x amount of time to complete and it is done wrong the first time, how long does it take to fix it?  More than 4x. It takes to x amount of time to complete the task the first time, probably at least x amount of time to find out it was done wrong, another x amount to figure out what the first guy did, and finally x amount to fix it correctly.

We all can agree that time is money and if a task is done incorrectly it may cost at a minimum as much as four times as much as it would cost if done correctly the first time around.