31mar2013
March 31, 2013
- What's actually wrong with Yahoo's purchase of Summly
- Blistering critique of bolt-on engineering.
- Logic programming is overrated
- In Q4 2012 a vibe on my Internet was "hardware is cool again." Lately a vibe has been, "why don't you startup kids come back when you've accomplished something technically significant."
- Being a leader, not a micromanaging editor
- This is an incredibly fine line. Sometimes teaching is done by editing side-by-side. Sometimes it is very difficult to articulate what "good" looks like. I'm certainly not perfect, and there is some good advice here.
- Checkboxes that kill your product
- I'm still proud to this day that we shipped SAMI EX without a preferences dialog, and DxLab had just a few options.
- Computer science in Vietnam
- Start kids early and give them a lot of headroom. Fraser reiterates that in the US we think there is no time for teaching programming. What does the rest of the Vietnamese curriculum look like?
- Charlie Miller turns his transferring sights on Phish
- I keep seeing Charlie Miller's name on Grateful Dead and Phish transfers at etree. There are two crowds: they guys doing the taping and the guys doing the transfers.
- Music for programming
- Electronica with no vocals. Works well for me. Available as MP3s and also published via podcast in iTunes.