Nov 25 2010

Retweet October 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

  • If rhythm is a dancer, then algorithm is a break dancer.
  • If you were a Java language reserve word what word would you be? I would be volatile!
  • I get personally insulted when I am prompted to prove my humanness with a captcha. It makes me wanna bust a cap-tcha on some webdeveloper!!!
  • Is there group think in the development community? Yes, but we build patterns around group think and call it Best Practices.

Team Leadership

  • Change your perspective and you can change the world.
  • If you don’t have an original idea you can remix existing ideas in original ways!
  • Go hard, go home, go big. Pick two.
  • If a web site’s end users are not paying customers, then the end users are the product that web site then sell to their advertisers.
  • Why do people compensate their inability to communicate with the belief that others just know what they mean, you know what I mean?
  • Hype is the food of lemmings.
  • The plan was to have no plan, the backup plan was to leave the backup plan at home.
  • Most people are natural born followers, it’s human nature.
  • The toughest competition doesn’t always come from a competitor trying to build a clone of your product but from market shift in the industry

Product Placement

  • In terms of hardware, mobile, and even operating systems Microsoft is anywhere between 3-5 years behind the leader.
  • Startups age really fast in Internet time, by my calculation Digg is already and Old Media Company.
  • Like what percent of Tumblr’s posts are reblogs and reposts?
  • I want JJ Abrams to do a movie about do a remake of The Muppets in an alternate time line like he did for Star Trek.
  • I want an iPhone that transforms into an iPad when I need a bigger screen.
  • Google is an advertising company with great search technology. Facebook is a virtual share cropping company with great social technology.
  • Who collects more personal data and knows more about a given user, Facebook or Google?
  • Apple should add a few filters to their iPhone camera app.

Mini Meme Machine

  • Scotty and Christopher Walken Mashup: Captain, I’m giving her all’s she got.  She needs more cowbell.
  • You know who would be great in a reality television show? A prison gang! Imagine, Real World San Quentin.
  • r-EPO, the performance-enhancing drug of champions!
  • Monetize common sense because people don’t have it.
  • I want to trademark the & char so that I could file a trademark infringement to all law firms with names of the form Dumb Dumber & Dumbest.
  • The best part of a bagel is the creme cheese.
  • My all time historical hero is Johannes Kepler.
  • Your life comes with terms of service, batteries not included, void where prohibited.
  • In Silicon Valley, everyone drinks the kool-aid but using bottled artisan water from a 10,000 year old glacier.
  • In Silicon Valley, everyone is more interested in their piece of the pie than in the recipe of success.

Quote

  • I didn’t mean for it to be released so quickly because I wanted to control peoples’ being offended by it. – Mark Zuckerberg
  • I think people might be slightly offended but whatever, maybe there’s a way to control that. – Mark Zuckerberg
  • Quitting while you are ahead is not the same thing as quitting. – American Gangster
  • Living at home with your parents is a very powerful contraception. – David Willetts
  • We should start a new social media web 2.0 holiday: Friend, Fan, and Follower Appreciation Day!!!

May 2 2010

Retweet April 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

  • Any software feature request should be broken down to 90% thinking and 10% coding.
  • Multiple-touch is the greatest things since buttons.
  • If a developer fools you once, shame on you, because they are usually fooling themselves when it comes to giving accurate estimates.
  • Don’t take developers estimate at face value.
  • Recommend The Rubyist for the Developers Directory on Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend/developers/rubyist
  • Many non-programming software users don’t understand the meaning of concatenated or null so don’t use these in labels in your UI.
  • I like to provide solutions that don’t involve complaining.
  • If Heraclitus is right and you never step in the same river twice, then you never write the same program twice.
  • Bugs keep my code humble.
  • A bug’s ingenuity is proportional to a developer’s ego and self importance.
  • Bugs like to in build nests out of spaghetti code in untested corner cases.
  • Working running code is just one corner case.
  • I use dead laptop drives as coasters.
  • My emotions are user generated.
  • I om nom nom nom on memes.
  • The interweb is my inspiration.
  • I CAN HAZ DREAMS OF INTERWEB MEMES

Team Leadership

  • When life gives you lemons, you may make lemonade. When life gives me lemons, I make myself some limoncello.
  • New motto/slogan: Don’t be a robot, unless you are 20 feet tall and can transform into a fighter jet.
  • Dream big or wake up.
  • The Law of Big Consequences: Large consequences are often the effect of making considerable decisions in a big rush.
  • Laughter is the duct tape equivalent of emotions, it can be used to patch up bad feelings or misunderstandings.
  • Manual, Error Prone, Time Consuming. Pick none!
  • When people dig their own hole they can’t get out of it by digging deeper.
  • Fight the power, and fight the hype.
  • A key skill in life is to know when to end a conversation.
  • Nothing is how you thought of it originally, it is up to you to make it better.
  • If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

Product Placement

  • Amazon knows what books you bought for the Kindle, how often and for how long you read, can add and remove books, and read your bookmarks, notes, and highlights…
  • FaceBook, Inc = F.B.I.
  • Apple wants to design multiple-touch devices, Google wants to crawl content, Facebook wants to own your social graph and associated data.
  • Facebook is really dumbing down the web with the like button.
  • Facebook’s Open Graph is not really open. If you don’t own the platform, can look through the source, can own the data it is not open!
  • Did someone just unlocked the Foursquare Sellout Badge at Yahoo HQ!
  • I’ve had enough Lifetime movies for one lifetime.
  • The world according Ronald McDonald is made out of corn meal.
  • The McChicken nugget is the worst thing since sliced bread.
  • Peeps are the most disgusting artificial food product.

Qoute

  • One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
  • I don’t like negotiating with people I can’t beat up. – Goldberg
  • We live in an amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation. – Louis C.K.
  • Beware of artists they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous. – Queen Victoria
  • He eyes are the nipples of the face. -The House Bunny