Retweet April 2012

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

  • Too often I’ve seen code that made me lose my lunch.
  • Sometimes source code is like the sausage factory where you don’t want to look what goes into an application.
  • One developer’s corner case is another user’s daily workflow.
  • Application logs are like money, you can always use more… Unfortunately they are like pennies, the more you have the more difficult it is.
  • Fix the problem, not the symptom. Some developers prefer to fix the symptom because they don’t know how to find the root cause itself.

Team Leadership

  • It is important to lead the way and then immediately get out of the way.
  • If it doesn’t make sense to me it is because you are not explaining it correctly.
  • Everyone has a right to their opinions but not everyone’s opinion is right.
  • Great ideas don’t belong to any one person. Great ideas are not unique to anyone. Great ideas stand on their own.
  • If you are safe in your comfort zone you’ll never be in the zone.
  • Even when I think outside the box, I am still in the zone.
  • There are no easy answers without hard choices.
  • It’s one thing to make sense and a completely different thing to be clear.
  • There are some things in life that are not meant for you to understand but to accept.

Product Placement

  • Things Apple should buy: Evernote, app TLD, Square, and my blog.
  • The Notes app on the iPhone badly needs an to support the undo and redo feature.
  • The new Google+ is the new New Coke.
  • If Google would have invented Polaroid, the film would be free but full of ads and a copy would be uploaded to the cloud.
  • Some of Google’s UI often looks and feels like the uncanny valley of design, it has a plastic aspect to it.
  • My other Tumblr is a Moleskine.
  • So much of the content I see in Pinterest seems to come from Tumblr…
  • Instagram has no ads, only available on mobile, Android support just added, not profitable, no web presence… Obviously worth $1 billion.
  • Instead of paying a billion in cash and stock why didn’t Facebook just pay a billion in Facebook Credits and likes.
  • Silicon Valley back of the envelop valuation math: Tumblr + Camera+ > Instagram therefore Tumblr + Camera+ = $10,000,000,000++.
  • I don’t understand @McDonalds economics… A whole McChicken sandwich costs $1 but ask for an extra BBQ sauce and you get charged $0.50.

Silicon Angels

  • Is it possible for the whole of Silicon Valley to jump the shark? If and when it does there will be a large splash.
  • Silicon Valley valuations are relative to previous largest valuation.
  • The Internet is paved with high valuations.
  • Frothyness is the new truthyness.
  • Frothy does a body good.

Randumb

  • I want to see the world in HD.
  • What do we want? Our way. When do we want it. All the time.
  • If someone says something that is factually untrue, it doesn’t mean they lied… It means you lied to yourself by believing it. #truth
  • One persons guest house is a other persons mansion.
  • Some people build walls, others bridges, I build BS radar detection systems.
  • Retweet, reblog, repin, remix, rinse, and repeat!
  • I think in numbers.
  • All language is a metaphor.
  • Trolls shall inherit the earth.