{"id":873,"date":"2009-10-05T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-10-05T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:21:15","slug":"retweet-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/retweet-september-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Retweet September 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.  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>One source of conflict with human computer interactions is that they unsure of themselves, we seek answers and they seek approval.<\/li>\n<li>What modern Operating Systems need is some level of artificial intelligence subsystem which all applications can use.<\/li>\n<li>I hate when each application asks the same question, &quot;are you sure you want to exit?&quot;  The OS should help apps to be more opinionated.<\/li>\n<li>Computers prompt us all the time for what smart defaults would do just fine.  Computers lack of inteligence is wasting mine.<\/li>\n<li>Programmers have a form of groupthink, Programmer Think.  This is especially true if FUD becomes dogma and design choices are not tested.<\/li>\n<li>Break Programmer Think, test all assumptions, every design choice, every implementation, every third party library, every different scenario<\/li>\n<li>If you are testing, have spent two days on a single problem, look in the log file, especially that null pointer exception, chances are that&#8217;s the problem.<\/li>\n<li>Even with all this cloud computing we still can&#8217;t forecast the weather accurately!<\/li>\n<li>First there was the web, the the web 2.0, now the perpetual web beta.<\/li>\n<li>Going gang busters don&#8217;t scale.<\/li>\n<li>Everything is beta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Team Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t agree on paper, you are not going to agree in code.<\/li>\n<li>When you don&#8217;t take any personal responsibility and make any proper planning, it is always someone else&#8217;s fault.<\/li>\n<li>Seen it happen&#8230;  Your brains cells are inverse proportional to your climb up the corporate ladder and the resources you manage.<\/li>\n<li>Each solution comes with a free can of worms!<\/li>\n<li>OH: you would make a great manager, cause you make a grumpy developer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Product Placement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google can&#8217;t commit to a version number that is why everything is in beta.  Beta is like a philosophy at Google, testing like a religion.<\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s philosophy of the meaning of life, the universe and everything else: Beta.<\/li>\n<li>This Week in Tech does ads for their ads&#8230; to promote the fact that they need to take ads.<\/li>\n<li>Apple has sold 225 million iPods to date.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter: If you build it they will come, but if they all come you will epic fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Questions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens when someone has buggy code in their test cases, how do you test the jUnit tests for bad test logic?<\/li>\n<li>Is Mono chasing .NET&#8217;s tail lights and .NET chasing Java&#8217;s tail light and Java is chasing Ruby&#8217;s tail light, &#8230;?<\/li>\n<li>Infinite Shakespeare Theorem: What would get if you have Shakespeare hitting a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time?<\/li>\n<li>All clicks being equal, is the Amazon affiliate program better than Google Adsense?<\/li>\n<li>What is your innovation quotient coefficient?<\/li>\n<li>What is your innovation quotient?<\/li>\n<li>What name\/term has the most website related moniker\/naming patterns?  e-iComputroniiixr beta 2.0?<\/li>\n<li>Are social networking sites making you unsociable?<\/li>\n<li>Is it possible to burn the rice and still have it be under cook?<\/li>\n<li>Which do you prefer best, an uncomfortable truth or a flattering lie?<\/li>\n<li>If you can have any view from your back porch, what would it be?<\/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. Software Development One source of [&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":[3],"tags":[53,52,51,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-e5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}