I LOVE THE LOYAL OPPOSITION
Carville has a job to do. And a role to play. But you get pretty honest stuff out of his mouth. And that works for me. I don’t have a thing against liberal ambitions, just liberal methods. Compare Carville to Krugman, who is exactly the opposite kind of character. If Krugman’s talking he’s lying. It may be that he believes the lie. But he’s lying, and doing it with such art, that it fools almost everyone.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-23 00:58:00 UTC
BIZ: EATING YOUR DOG FOOD
We are getting fairly close to being able to use our product Oversing to run our own business. Just another month or two.
At Microsoft we had this saying “eat your own dog food” which means “Use our own products”.
The thing is, you should WANT to use your own product.
It’s the same thing with CEO’s. If you’re going to build products, you should WANT THEM. For yourself. ‘Cause you’ll obsess over them.
I love Oversing. I think it is the most awesome product that’s ever been built for the services market. And if I didn’t, then I wouldn’t build it. And I wouldn’t want to use it.
You can’t obsess over something you don’t want and love. You can only obsess over the money it makes, or the happiness of the customers you want to keep, or the people you want to work with.
But if you’re selling a product, your first obsession needs to be teh product. You should build products for yourself. If you have good taste. Customers will want it too. And while I agree that you can make products for customers, based upon customer demand, if you aren’t creating that demand, then you’re not obsessing enough about your product.
Obsession is a beautiful thing.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-23 00:39:00 UTC
HUMOR: lowbrow
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 23:50:00 UTC
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/08/no-we-cant-return-to-the-sky-high-tax-rates-of-postwar-america/ON POSSIBLE TAX RATES.
The reason Europeans are poorer than americans is taxes.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 14:10:00 UTC
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/08/bitcoin_and_the.htmlBITCOIN. AND WHY LIBERTARIANS SHOULD ENTER POLITICS.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 14:01:00 UTC
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/08/great-gatsby-the-chart-at-the-core-of-obamanomics/WHY WE CANT GET TO DENMARK.
(Diversity)
“There is no way the United States can mimic the outcomes of Denmark in the way Danes have made that accomplishment: a geographically small country, ethnically homogenous, with high levels of trust, and a labour market notably more structured is not a guide for American public policy.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 13:56:00 UTC
WHY NATURALISM?
(GEM)
The reason I advocate epistemic naturalism in all fields over platonism in all fields, is not ideological or preferential or even metaphysical. It’s because I think that epistemic naturalism is as important as are objective truth, contract, the rule of law, the balance of powers, accounting, money and prices, for the survival and prosperity of man. Truth is truth. Expediency is expediency. Causality is different from consequence. And if people do not know that, they believe in magic.
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 03:28:00 UTC
This is right up your alley…
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 00:58:00 UTC
SILLY: POSITIONS
The entire staff is conducting a heated debate. It’s not over anything architectural. Anything algorithmic. Or about performance. Or durability. But over the icons that should represent Individual, Group, Role and Position, in our software.
It’s absurd. But, its so funny I don’t want to stop it. So I send them a set of icons with sexual positions. And now I’m waiting to see who checks their email first. 🙂
BUT SERIOUSLY
I remember having this same conversation, at Microsoft, about the icons in Microsoft Access. And way back then, thinking, ‘there is nothing in this room with any empirical support’. And ‘how come we never have these heated discussions about things that matter?’
Humans are fascinating creatures.
lol
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-20 07:44:00 UTC
TECH STUFF
Never liked Java. its just the COBOL of today.
Love PHP productivity. Love the entirely javascript UI. Python maybe, for more algorithmic solutions. Php for data driven solutions.
If we weren’t so far along, I’d make the shift to from jQuery to ExtJS, and insulate Laravel entirely from the front end. And split the teams. Its too costly spread the UI, even with MVC architecture. Too unproductive.
Senscha renders horrid UI out of the box and jQuery is the toy if aesthetes, so it looks so much better.
But converting jQuery ideas to extJS implementations would be a better trade off at current tech levels.
Problem (opportunity) is that OO JS programmers are rare.
So, if anyone wants to know what skill is most valuable. I’m still in the JS camp.
Not sure about Objective C long term. Pattern says no.
But Java project experience is such a sorting and filtering mechanism I understand why its a good enterprise risk mitigation strategy.
But for my money, css/js/php | python/mysql is pretty hard to argue with.
And JS really is maturing nicely.
One more generation of the performance race and its looking pretty good.
Nothing terribly insightful. But what I’m not saying might be. 🙂
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2013-08-20 06:39:00 UTC