Sep
12
2011
Retweet August 2011
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
- More code, more problems.
- Code. Money. Respect.
- Code war is the new cold war.
- The programer-designer is the philosopher-king or our time.
- Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to gold farm and he’ll eat for a lifetime.
Team Leadership
- When the world is flat and information freely available there is a premium on creativity.
- There is no such thing as free lunch, especially if it’s lobster.
- Give a silicon valley startup founder a lemon and he’ll make a social networking site for people that like lemonade.
Product Placement
- I hope Twitter doesn’t become the next MySpace.
- There is no i in Apple.
- Google is buying Motorola for $12.5 Billion. Google is also developing a autonomous car, so in a few years it might buy Ford.
- It’s not Thanksgiving, so why did Google pay so much for a moto turkey?
- AT&T charges for services you use and most importantly for services you don’t, and they sell you out to the feds on top of that.
- I know that many G+ users are still in the early adopter stages of denial, but honestly, Google does not know how to do social right.
Quote
- Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P.T. Barnum
- Wall Street is now a huge mathematical game of chess where individual companies are just pawns. – Mark Cuban
- Search is dead. What people want is an answer. … You don’t need Trip Advisor, you don’t need Yelp. – @Jason, #TWiST 171
Questions
- Got Woot?
- You think Papa Murphy’s is related to Papa John’s?
- Has Flash lost it’s fizzle?
- If G+ was spun out of Google as an independent company it would be valued at $50 billion.
- What company will be around in 25 years, Apple, Zynga, Facebook, Google, eBay, Microsoft, …???
- Now they are making movies in 4D… What is next, 7D?
- If this is your third startup, are you really still a starting up?
- I just want to know, why are those birds so angry?
Randumb
- When life gives you bullshit, make lemonade.
- Untangling headphones in the dark.
- Current Status: somewhere between FML and IDGAFF.
- Zoned out from being on the zone for so long.
- The future is retro.
- Don’t trust your shit to chance.
- MTV has as much expertise to produce MTV’s Music Awards as the History Channel’s has to produce Ancient Aliens.
- It’s ironic how many people misuse the word irony.
- Even though I haven’t gone back to school for a while now, I can’t resist a good Back To School sale!
- I tired of Shark Week. When will they have Turtle Week or Salamander Week?
- If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were to be created now they would have been known as Angry Turtles.
- Total Retargeting
- Shift+Happens