{"id":566,"date":"2009-04-03T00:29:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T05:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/retweets-march-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T00:29:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T05:29:35","slug":"retweets-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/retweets-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweets March 2009"},"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.  You can follow my tweets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/techknow\">techknow<\/a>, say hello and I&#8217;ll be sure to friend back!<\/p>\n<p><b>Programming<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be a one track mind, and don&#8217;t be a one stack developer!<\/li>\n<li>If a picture is worth one thousand words, a running and working application is worth one thousand specifications!<\/li>\n<li>In software development there are more people issues than there are issues with specifications or features or code.<\/li>\n<li>Can we use the internal defect tracking software to enter a bug issue on people that bug you?<\/li>\n<li>Sophisticated does not need to be complicated.<\/li>\n<li>Nerds don&#8217;t dance, they programmatically move their limbs in unison.<\/li>\n<li>Writing blocks of code and upgrading your whole library dependency is rarely a practical solution that clients are willing to pay for.<\/li>\n<li>Will Code for Happiness!<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t make itineraries, I use public map APIs and RSS feeds and make apps that make travel itineraries for me!<\/li>\n<li>Throwing money at a problem only cause other type of problems.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of counting backwards, a good sobriety test for a nerd is to recite the Fibonacci sequence or prime numbers or powers of two.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers don&#8217;t lie, but they omit how they where gathered, analyzed, and crunched.<\/li>\n<li>There is no better code than the one I am currently working on, and their is no worst code than the one I wrote a year++ ago.<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t sleep so I&#8217;m hacking memories into dreams, counting tweets instead of sheeps, drinking tequila instead of warm milk.<\/li>\n<li>Do you think in a procedural, object oriented, tail recursive, domain specific, prototype, meta, functional or parallel quicksort of way?<\/li>\n<li>There is no I in TEAM especially when there is blame to pass around.  Sometimes blame get passed around more than the ball.<\/li>\n<li>In problem solving some people also prematurely optimize and over think the problem at hand by introducing another problem.<\/li>\n<li>Some people have Personal Assistant, I need a Personal Programmer.<\/li>\n<li>Some drop bombs, others drop beats, some drop bunker buster knowledge, many more drop opinions, I drop bytecode!<\/li>\n<li>In temperate and sunny days like these I develop an allergic reaction to my cube.<\/li>\n<li>Textbook answers alone are not solutions.  Chanting &#8216;Interface Singleton Builder pattern&#8217; in meetings does not fix all your design issues.<\/li>\n<li>Booksmart peeps give you text book answers, but I&#8217;ve never needed to know when two trains arrive in Toledo if the leave opposite directions.<\/li>\n<li>Writing a twitter client is the new hello, world!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Business<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google New Customer Service Motto: Don&#8217;t Be Evil and Don&#8217;t Be Available!<\/li>\n<li>Google has mapped the streets, oceans, earth, heavens.  What will Google map next, the brain, underworld, middle earth?<\/li>\n<li>Why doesn&#8217;t the iPhone have a good way to delete multiple pictures at once?  Am I to wait two years for this just like cut and paste!<\/li>\n<li>Can I put a restraining order out on Adobe Acrobat, it always pops up and asked if I want to upgrade!  NO LEAVE ME ALONE!<\/li>\n<li>Wowza, still downloading more Kindle books on my iPhone.  This makes my digital library even more accessible.<\/li>\n<li>I should pitch a nre series to ABC, Dancing with the Nerds.<\/li>\n<li>Odwalla&#8217;s Superfood is the veggie version of the hot dog in a green liquid form, it is mechanically separated and blended roots and fruits.<\/li>\n<li>What?  Mark Zuckerborg is on Twitter? Is that like eating your own dog food and your competitor&#8217;s dog food too?  Say hello to Mark: @finkd<\/li>\n<li>How do you politely handle a coworker coming to your office and talking about his cat? I rather be clawed to death than hear about it again.<\/li>\n<li>Customers want answers not theories.<\/li>\n<li>Show more interest in your customers than their money.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t win every argument just by being right, just as you can&#8217;t win market dominance just by having the superior product.<\/li>\n<li>It took years, well over a decade, since it&#8217;s invention for slice bread to become the greatest thing since.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually everyone sells out, if not to the establishment then to the anti-establishment.<\/li>\n<li>It is okay to wear multi hats as long as you wear your kick ass army boots.<\/li>\n<li>Save or create jobs?  I just saved a job by going to work!  I need a tax break and a coffee break.<\/li>\n<li>Before you can build a better mouse trap, fix your toaster.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to make a Ol&#8217; McDonald style burger and on this burger I&#8217;ll have beef, bacon, turkey&#8230; EI EI O<\/li>\n<li>Best Job Tittle: Aggression Researcher You Stupid Bastard!<\/li>\n<li>Just received an email from the recruiting agency my company uses, the had to layoff some staff.<\/li>\n<li>Some people hustle for money, I hustle for deals.<\/li>\n<li>There are three forms of questioning: conversation, interview, interrogation.<\/li>\n<li>My 401K looks like it did during Y2K<\/li>\n<li>Blogging is not a business plan.<\/li>\n<li>Which do you prefer first, action or planning?<\/li>\n<li>Between action or planning I prefer active planning!<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let a show stopper actually stop the show!  The show must go on!  Break an audience member&#8217;s leg if you have to!<\/li>\n<li>Rules and regulations should not replace common sense.<\/li>\n<li>Talking is not communicating, an idea is not a vision, and an opinion is not a sound argument.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t compete with those that are trying to help you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Twitter<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter fail whale is over weight and over capacity!<\/li>\n<li>Twitter is too big to fail! Twitter&#8217;s business model should be asking the Obama administration for a bailout?<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t have anything nice to say, retweet.<\/li>\n<li>There is famous, 15 minute famous, and then there is Twitter famous.<\/li>\n<li>If Twitter is poor man&#8217;s email, who is the slum dog millionaire&#8217;s email?<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t hardly tell the diff between a twitter and a tweaker.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter should allow you to customize the question &#8216;What re you doing?&#8217; to anything else like &#8216;Talk to me.&#8217;<\/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. You can follow my tweets at techknow, say hello and I&#8217;ll be sure to friend back! 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