{"id":1115,"date":"2010-10-15T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2010-10-15T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:59:06","slug":"retweet-september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/10\/15\/retweet-september-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet September 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techknow\">techknow<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/juixe\">juixe<\/a> and I&#8217;ll be sure to follow back.<\/p>\n<p><b>Software Development<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is not the future of UI.  I dislike services that use email for data entry or input device.<\/li>\n<li>Common source of errors, cut and paste!<\/li>\n<li>Functional specifications are often times as misinterpreted as the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a programmer by day, developer by night, and hacker in between.<\/li>\n<li>Some features are disguised as bugs.<\/li>\n<li>One man&#8217;s feature is another man&#8217;s bug.<\/li>\n<li>Void is my favorite return type.<\/li>\n<li>Code Commandment: No code shall PrintStackTrace<\/li>\n<li>Show me your implementation and I&#8217;ll tell you about yourself.<\/li>\n<li>The words &#8220;it does not compute&#8221; does not compute, they are not in my default dictionary.<\/li>\n<li>Get your hack on!<\/li>\n<li>When a developer says, &#8220;pretty much working&#8221; it does not mean production quality.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure that a software application larger than &#8220;Hello, World&#8221; can be bug free.<\/li>\n<li>If there is a giant red &#8216;Do Not Press&#8217; or &#8216;Active Dooms Day Device&#8217; button, someone will press it.<\/li>\n<li>Every design decision should be a conscious choice, not an accidental assumption.<\/li>\n<li>Will work for intellectual stimulation.<\/li>\n<li>If you are a User Generated Content site saying you will censor a topic will only inspire your users to find ways around that.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your default setting for the Ultimate Bitch Mode setting?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Dynamics<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just like how there are no any stupid questions, there are no any stupid ideas.<\/li>\n<li>In order to get the most out of crowd sourcing you need to source your crowd.<\/li>\n<li>Look past people&#8217;s past.<\/li>\n<li>If you are going to shot for the stars you best have a rocket ship.<\/li>\n<li>When the stars align, shoot for them.  And if you shooting for the stars you best bring the big guns!<\/li>\n<li>When shooting for the stars I bring an Klingon Bird of Prey!<\/li>\n<li>And on the 8th day God said, &#8220;Let there be a TPS report.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Life is too short to sell yourself short.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t think in problems.  Dream in solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Never say maybe.<\/li>\n<li>The next big thing usually starts as a small idea.<\/li>\n<li>People will always push your buttons, you need to know how o deactivate those buttons.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t fear being wrong.  I fear not being able to recognize when other people are wrong.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t delete emails once sent, but you can read them before you send them.<\/li>\n<li>For every great idea there are hundreds of ways to mess it up.<\/li>\n<li>Show me the monetization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Zuckerborg is a geek super evil privacy villain.<\/li>\n<li>Boing Boing should just sell out to Rupert Murdoch.<\/li>\n<li>Panda Express&#8217; logo says, &#8220;Gourmet Chinese Food.&#8221;  Really, Gourmet? Chinese?<\/li>\n<li>American Apparel might file for bankruptcy, maybe China can buy it out and rename it to Chairman Mao Apparel.<\/li>\n<li>The company Manpower has a very male chauvinist sounding name.<\/li>\n<li>If only mother nature would have patented all her innovations, we would all be paying royalties to her.<\/li>\n<li>Why does it cost $30 for Apple&#8217;s iPhone earphones?  They like $.50 worth of material and $.25 of labor!<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Google Finance should have a &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>The cake is a lie.  Do no evil is a lie.<\/li>\n<li>The next version of the iPhone should be called ivePhone after it&#8217;s designer Jony Ive.<\/li>\n<li>Upset that I&#8217;ve had to purchase yet another iPhone headset!!!  At $30 a pop the white earphone are Apple&#8217;s razor blade business!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Resume Writing Tips<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resume Writing Tip: Use a good phone line for a phone interview.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Resume Writing Tip: The minimum research a candidate needs to do is lookup the company website himself prior to interviewing.<\/li>\n<li>Resume Writing Tip: Ensure your cover letter or email is in one font, it shouldn&#8217;t look like you cut and pasted from somewhere else.<\/li>\n<li>Resume Writing Tip: I would leave out MS Access 2000 out of technical skills.  It&#8217;s also not necessary to list HTML, DHTML, and HTML5.<\/li>\n<li>Resume Writing Tip: Proof read your resume and fix obvious typos, you can&#8217;t say you detailed oriented if you have basic spelling errors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quote<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to put a ding in the universe. &#8211; Steve Jobs<\/li>\n<li>The problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. &#8211; Daring Fireball<\/li>\n<li>They [People] want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. &#8211; Eric Schmidt<\/li>\n<li>People aren&#8217;t ready for the technology revolution that&#8217;s going to happen to them. &#8211; Eric Schmidt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ll be sure to follow back. 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