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Sunday
21Feb2010

Programmers Are Assholes »

Marco Arment just called us all out (all of us programmer types) as childish douchebags and I think he's kinda right.  People on the Internet are generally asshats when given the opportunity to be anonymous...

But programmers are a special case. Because not only will they tell you how wrong you are, but they’ll also tell you how stupid and idiotic you are, and they’ll mathematically prove it, and you should never program again, and you should be fired, you moron. Their attacks are all-out personal insults on your intelligence, but much better written and argued than most internet commenters.

Everyone, and not just programmers, needs to read Paul Graham's, "How to Disagree" article.  Most people don't make it past DH4 on his dsiagreement hierarchy.

Tuesday
19Jan2010

Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

— 

Jeff Atwood via Coding Horror

Monday
28Dec2009

What a man hears he may doubt, what he sees he may possibly doubt, but what he does himself he cannot doubt.

— 

Seaman Knapp

Thursday
12Nov2009

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

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James Cameron, Man of Extremes

Thursday
22Oct2009

Think with your hands, build something or try something, then talk about it, not the reverse.

Friday
25Sep2009

Success is just like being pregnant. Everybody congratulates you, but nobody knows how may times you were fucked.

Thursday
10Sep2009

When people sit down at their PCs a strange sense of entitlement overcomes them...Everyone thinks that because they have a Facebook page or a blog or a website that they have fractional ownership of the Web. And in that tiny little bit of electronic real estate they can post pretty much whatever they want regardless of who else it may harm, injure or insult. Or, in most cases, bore to tears.

Friday
28Aug2009

Rapid prototyping and 'learning by making' is a [good] strategy for effective innovation. For participatory systems, this is even more important because the complexity of the interactions cannot possibly be anticipated by even the smartest of plans. The reality is that these prototypes cannot live in the lab; they have to be let out into the wild. So, we need to start getting comfortable with letting others participate in our innovation activities.

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Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO

Thursday
30Jul2009

Think you're tough? Try designing & developing production software. It's like being in the Ironman except everyone is booing you.

Friday
24Jul2009

Hate Driven Development. It’s when you come to hate working on something so much that it inspires a surge of productivity that leads to completion. Most projects that involve this methodology include a procrastination phase.