{"id":1564,"date":"2012-05-16T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T18:42:50","slug":"retweet-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2012\/05\/16\/retweet-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet April 2012"},"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>Too often I&#8217;ve seen code that made me lose my lunch.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes source code is like the sausage factory where you don&#8217;t want to look what goes into an application.<\/li>\n<li>One developer&#8217;s corner case is another user&#8217;s daily workflow.<\/li>\n<li>Application logs are like money, you can always use more&#8230; Unfortunately they are like pennies, the more you have the more difficult it is.<\/li>\n<li>Fix the problem, not the symptom.  Some developers prefer to fix the symptom because they don&#8217;t know how to find the root cause itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is important to lead the way and then immediately get out of the way.<\/li>\n<li>If it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me it is because you are not explaining it correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has a right to their opinions but not everyone&#8217;s opinion is right.<\/li>\n<li>Great ideas don&#8217;t belong to any one person.  Great ideas are not unique to anyone.  Great ideas stand on their own.<\/li>\n<li>If you are safe in your comfort zone you&#8217;ll never be in the zone.<\/li>\n<li>Even when I think outside the box, I am still in the zone.<\/li>\n<li>There are no easy answers without hard choices.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s one thing to make sense and a completely different thing to be clear.<\/li>\n<li>There are some things in life that are not meant for you to understand but to accept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Things Apple should buy: Evernote, app TLD, Square, and my blog.<\/li>\n<li>The Notes app on the iPhone badly needs an to support the undo and redo feature.<\/li>\n<li>The new Google+ is the new New Coke.<\/li>\n<li>If Google would have invented Polaroid, the film would be free but full of ads and a copy would be uploaded to the cloud.<\/li>\n<li>Some of Google&#8217;s UI often looks and feels like the uncanny valley of design, it has a plastic aspect to it.<\/li>\n<li>My other Tumblr is a Moleskine.<\/li>\n<li>So much of the content I see in Pinterest seems to come from Tumblr&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Instagram has no ads, only available on mobile, Android support just added, not profitable, no web presence&#8230; Obviously worth $1 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of paying a billion in cash and stock why didn&#8217;t Facebook just pay a billion in Facebook Credits and likes.<\/li>\n<li>Silicon Valley back of the envelop valuation math: Tumblr + Camera+ > Instagram therefore Tumblr + Camera+ = $10,000,000,000++.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t understand @McDonalds economics&#8230; A whole McChicken sandwich costs $1 but ask for an extra BBQ sauce and you get charged $0.50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Silicon Angels<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it possible for the whole of Silicon Valley to jump the shark?  If and when it does there will be a large splash.<\/li>\n<li>Silicon Valley valuations are relative to previous largest valuation.<\/li>\n<li>The Internet is paved with high valuations.<\/li>\n<li>Frothyness is the new truthyness.<\/li>\n<li>Frothy does a body good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Randumb<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to see the world in HD.<\/li>\n<li>What do we want?  Our way.  When do we want it.  All the time.<\/li>\n<li>If someone says something that is factually untrue, it doesn&#8217;t mean they lied&#8230; It means you lied to yourself by believing it.  #truth<\/li>\n<li>One persons guest house is a other persons mansion.<\/li>\n<li>Some people build walls, others bridges, I build BS radar detection systems.<\/li>\n<li>Retweet, reblog, repin, remix, rinse, and repeat!<\/li>\n<li>I think in numbers.<\/li>\n<li>All language is a metaphor.<\/li>\n<li>Trolls shall inherit the earth.<\/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. 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