Gerald Weinberg talks about what it was like to be a real programmer: A San Francisco oil company, which couldn’t accept the coast-to-coast turnaround time, requested an IBM machine of its own (at a cost of roughly $20 million) to run an application that blended oil from its distillation towers everyday. According to Weinberg, performing …
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google gets it
Joe Beda explains the Google development model. Highlights: There is, by and large, only one code base at Google. This has many advantages. Most obvious is that it is really easy to look at and contribute to code in other projects without having to talk to anyone, get special permissions or fill out forms in …
clean cars on the way?
Salon notes how the automakers have backed themselves in to a corner: With this agreement, the automakers unilaterally disarm from their long-standing position that they cannot make clean cars. In fact, they have sued to overturn the California Clean Car Law which is the basis for Canada’s action. The auto companies are now in the …
overheard at SXSW
“no woman who knows that much about CSS should be that good looking” Girl 1: because I want to make out with you…but I’m not gay. Girl 2: you’re not? Girl 1: not gay…but gay enough.
flickr tags
useful flickr tagging suggestions.
bash 201
cool tips for using bash productively.
NDAs are a civil matter
Molly has a really good explanation of the legal issues involved in the Apple-vs-web sites (not really “bloggers”) suits: The violation of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) is – read this carefully – not a criminal act. This is why comparing the actions of those who might have violated a NDA and those who published the information …
cool usability blogs
i just came a cross a kickass design and usability blog, signal vs noise. how am i the last person to know about this? oh, yeah, silverorange has impressive labs and stuff blogs.
flickrrrrrr
i’m one of the cool kids now. i have photos on flickr.
(googlebomb)
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