March 2009
20 posts
“Are cloud based services going to disappear by the summer?”
– Fake Yossi Vardi (on twitter)
“It’s clever, but is it art?”
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WatchAs you can see, converting units CAN be fun.
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'readability' is too complex
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Structure
or the lack thereof:
What I always wonder about free verse
is where the stops are.
I want to know what I’m working against.
(Robert Frost)
Beautiful. And such a pity. Once you see it, its gone.
“if I put my hand down, it means silence….
I want to hear the scream of...”
– Emir Kusturica
the pirate
deep down, is just lonely. He would like to know more saber swingin, leg missin, parrot carryin .. pirates.
“A little less conversation a little more action, please”
– the king
closer my client to thee →
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sometimes its just no
git config status.showUntrackedFiles no
or .. how to speed up that git status command!
Giles, get a life →
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Mocks replace the code *you wish you had*! →
“The value that mocking provides in this case is writing the code you wish you had. Do you really wish you had a find(:select => …, :conditions => …) in your controller code? Of course not! (I hope not, anyway). You don’t have to use mocks to get the APIs you want (refactoring is still an option ;) but it’s very, very helpful.”
“You don’t have a soul, you are a soul with a body attached!”
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Relativistic Servers
The opposite of quantum states in physics: server state mostly collapses when you are not observing.
On throwing away →
“Most of all, these arguments stemmed from a simple misconception: that the code we had written was an asset, and that it would cost us to throw it away. But code written that doesn’t help the company succeed is a sunk cost.”
“Logic doesn’t apply to the real world.”
– Marvin Minsky
“One thing that makes testing difficult is that it’s kind of boring. Most...”
– James Gosling (on artima)
express:intent →