Retweet March 2010
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’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development
- Security pet peeves: captchas, security questions, having to login after changing my password.
- A supercomputer won’t solve the incompetence of bad programmers on a deadline.
- All software is in beta.
- The Like button needs to be killed.
- \-: “premature optimization is root all of evil.” (-: “That’s what she said.”
- This must be a record. I just improved our app’s memory consumption by 80%, some 400MB, by changing one line of code.
- I love technology because I can now blame my misspelling on my iPhone.
- Where 2.0 is the new meme. Is your website Where 2.0 aware?
- Building a community and building a business around a community are not the same thing.
- The linked list was recently patented, I’m going to patent something critical to civilization, like calculus or pottery.
- Dear debugger, I wish you could introspect my feelings and put a breakpoint on my heart break.
- A slew of computer bugs are caused by assumptions made by the programmer.
- You know things are bad when you get error code 0000.
- Bugs grow organically.
- It is possible to make spaghetti code out of Obeject Oriented Programmmmmming?
- Rule of thumb: use immutable objects as keys to hash maps otherwise get to you your debugger.
Team Leadership
- The best ideas are free.
- No matter what, you will never be less busy.
- Let’s be honest, anywhere from 10-30% of a resume is a stretch.
- So as not to forget anything, remember nothing.
- When you give someone else time, you waste you own.
- Don’t give any answer, give the right question.
- If you have a one trick pony, ride it until it is ready to be put to pasture.
- Problems are meant to be solved only if they can’t be ignored.
- The one best possible thing you can do to make any situation better is to not make it worse.
- One can lead by asking questions, just as well as giving orders.
- If you build it, they will come. But if you make it to complex or change it to often, then they will leave.
- The secret ingredient is to believe there is a secret ingredient.
- I don’t express myself best when speaking, but when reflecting.
- Praying may not change the world, but it can change your perspective which is helpful to change your world.
- Folks usually want the what first but I think that the why and the how is more important than the what.
Product Placement
- Facebook announced a major investment by the CIA. It was reported that the US Gov will push for Facebook Connect as a National ID program.
- PayPal just sucks. I can transfer money to former Soviet Bloc countries faster than I can between PayPal and my bank.
- Spam is like a staple in Hawaii. So it comes as no surprise that Mahalo is one of the most spam ridden sites online.
- My suggestion to cable companies: give away basic cable to every American with on demand features. Add value outside the cable box.
- Which will provide better value/info for businesses, yelp or foursquare?
- The current Apple Appstore approval time is rand() * Months.
- McDs should make a tofu McMuffin.
- A sign at a Palo Alto church: redeem your soul, there is an app for that.
- Purple Cow Thinking: don’t be boring, safe is risky, design rules now, very good is bad.
Quote
- If there is a limit, you should, you must test it. – Seth Godin/Purple Cow
- Vision without execution is hallucination – Thomas Edison
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain