Tue, 22 Apr 2008
I've been wanting to do this for years, I'm glad someone finally did
it:
<http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/how-valid-are-tv-weather-forecasts/>
Some actual quotes from forecasters:
We have no idea s going to happen [in the weather] beyond three days
out.
...
(read more...)
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link: Freakonomics,Weather_Forecasting ]
Fri, 01 Feb 2008
Jonathan Rauch
<http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch>
My name is Scott, and I am an introvert.
Extroverts are energized by people, and wilt or fade when alone. They
often seem bored by themselves, in both senses of the
expression. Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach
...
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link: Rauch,Caring_for_Your_Introvert ]
Thu, 17 Jan 2008
Excerpt from an essay (dated 1995) by author Orson Scott Card:
<http://www.zoion.com/~erlkonig/writings/programmer-beekeeping.html>
Here's the problem that ends up killing company after company. All
successful software companies had, as their dominant personality, a
leader who nurtured programmers. But no company can keep such a leader
forever. Either he cashes out, or he brings in management types who
end up driving him out, or he changes and becomes a management type
...
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link: Card,How_Software_Companies_Die ]
Fri, 28 Dec 2007
Excerpt from a recent blog post from Steve Yegge:
<http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html>
I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In
particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst
thing that can happen to a code base is size.
I say "size" as a placeholder for a reasonably well-formed thought for
...
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[ category: /links |
link: Yegge,Code's_Worst_Enemy ]
Fri, 17 Aug 2007
Peter Norvig
<http://norvig.com/21-days.html>
An insightful essay on the price of excellence and competency. Excerpt
below:
Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to
develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess
...
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link: Norvig,Teach_Yourself_Programming ]
Tue, 24 Apr 2007
An excerpt from Paul Graham's essay:
<http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html>
The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks
to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is
extremely rare in technology. Their victory is so complete that I'm
now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly
all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the
...
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[ category: /links |
link: Graham,Microsoft_is_Dead ]
Fri, 12 Jan 2007
<http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/06_39/b4002414.htm>
An insightful article about one of Apple's design geniuses.
But if Jobs is the public keeper of Apple's design zeitgeist, then
Ive is the private leader of its talented design team. "Apple is a
cult, and Apple's design team is an even more intense version of a
cult," notes Riley. Actually, it's not a big cult -- just a dozen
people or so. But they operate at an extremely high level, both
individually and as a group. Ive has said that many Apple products
were dreamed up while eating pizza in the small kitchen at the team's
design studio.
[ category: /links |
link: Jonathan_Ive ]
Tue, 19 Dec 2006
I bought a neti pot in November from Health & Yoga:
(Link opens new window. Select "Neti Pot" in the products list on the
left and click "Go").
I've used it almost every day and couldn't be more pleased.
...
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[ category: /links/health |
link: neti_pot ]
Fri, 15 Dec 2006
More perspicacity from Paul Graham:
<http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html>
The best place to work, if you want to start a startup, is probably
a startup. In addition to being the right sort of experience, one
way or another it will be over quickly. You'll either end up rich,
in which case problem solved, or the startup will get bought, in
which case it it will start to suck to work there and it will be
...
(read more...)
[ category: /links |
link: Graham,Student's_Guide_to_Startups ]
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