{"id":1483,"date":"2011-11-28T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2011-11-27T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:00:06","slug":"retweet-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2011\/11\/28\/retweet-october-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet October 2011"},"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>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Software Development<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To checkin or not to checkin a large changelist five minutes before you go home, that is the question?<\/li>\n<li>A test like a good movie, has three parts: the setup, the car chase, and the test of the results.<\/li>\n<li>Testing is like a tax, you have to pay 5-10% to have a good running infrastructure or system.<\/li>\n<li>Testing takes time, make sure you make the time, because it will save you time in the long run.<\/li>\n<li>All programmers have a black belt in hubris.<\/li>\n<li>One bytecode to rule them all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thought Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your miles may vary, but it often depends on your attitude.<\/li>\n<li>Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes you can&#8217;t afford to lose a client, but there are other times you can&#8217;t afford keep your client.<\/li>\n<li>Just like there should be no hard coded strings there should be no unwritten rules, or assumptions, or specifications.<\/li>\n<li>The dumbest people I&#8217;ve ever encountered are those that think that the rest of the 99.99% of people are a bunch of idiots.<\/li>\n<li>If you are unique no one can compete with you.<\/li>\n<li>Team meetings should not feel like an AA meeting, &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m bob and I work here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not liking the new Google Reader look.  I would not be surprised if the next version of Google design has ribbons.<\/li>\n<li>Leave no smart phone behind.  Google won&#8217;t upgrade the Nexus One to Android 4.0.<\/li>\n<li>Google is set to update its motto to &#8220;Do no evil if you ain&#8217;t getting paid for such evil.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Android is to Google what Internet Explorer was to Microsoft in the Browser Wars.  MS gave IE for free just to take out Netscape.<\/li>\n<li>Siri is to Apple what Kinect is to XBox what Facebook Connect is to Facebook what Circles are to Google Plus&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Every time I upgrade a MS product an angel loses his wings.<\/li>\n<li>Is Amazon also adopting social networking features?  I just noticed that Amazon has a like button on its product pages.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook should update its mission &#8220;to trick people to over share and make the world more open, connected, and trackable.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Google should update its mission &#8220;to organize the world&#8217;s information about our users and make it accessible and useful to our advertisers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>@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?<\/li>\n<li>Why does it cost half of the price of a stamp to send or receive a text?  It&#8217;s endemic of an industry that has no competition or innovation.<\/li>\n<li>The Kindle Fire tablet is a modern day physical shopping cart for Amazon&#8217;s virtual online store.<\/li>\n<li>History is being made every day, yet @historychannel airs reruns of Ancient Alien.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quotes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. &#8211; Steve Jobs&#8217; Last Words<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead. &#8211; Bender Bending Rodriguez<\/li>\n<li>Goodbye monobrains &#8211; Bender Bending Rodriguez<\/li>\n<li>There is no recession for great companies&#8230; &#8211; Jason Calacanis<\/li>\n<li>Software is like sex: it&#8217;s better when it&#8217;s free. &#8211; Linus Torvalds<\/li>\n<li>Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is success.  &#8211; Henry Ford<\/li>\n<li>When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. &#8211; Walter Lippmann<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Randumb<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Monday mornings we are all zombies.<\/li>\n<li>Why am I listening to old school British punk rock? #GodSpankTheQueen<\/li>\n<li>The truth is that truth is absolutely relative.<\/li>\n<li>And then God said, &#8220;Let there be bacon,&#8221; and there was bacon.  God saw that the bacon was delicious.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re so vain, you probably think this tweet is about you.<\/li>\n<li>Fist pump for peace.<\/li>\n<li>Anybody that gets lost in a corn maze is an absolute moron.<\/li>\n<li>I hate Lifetime movies!<\/li>\n<li>Business is legitimate thievery.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the most common elements on earth idiotum and dumbtonium.<\/li>\n<li>meta-disrupt: Disrupt those disrupting disruption.<\/li>\n<li>I am, therefore I meme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thought Equations<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meaning > money<\/li>\n<li>problem = opportunity<\/li>\n<li>means != ends<\/li>\n<li>Success > Perfection<\/li>\n<li>Experience != Information<\/li>\n<li>Thinking > Knowing<\/li>\n<li>Do > try<\/li>\n<li>Platform > product<\/li>\n<li>Creation > criticism<\/li>\n<li>Passion + Perseverance = Possibilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Million Dollar Ideas<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Million Dollar Idea: Online Speed Dating Site<\/li>\n<li>Million dollar idea: a news channel with nothing but news tickers&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Million Dollar Idea: self cleaning floors.<\/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. Software Development To checkin or not to checkin a large changelist five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,342,3],"tags":[53,626,625,52,44,340,804,308],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-nV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}