On Programming
“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.” via Nerds on…
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“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.” via Nerds on…
Simple is better than complex. Cheap is better than expensive. Explicit is better than opaque. Purpose is more important than process. Insight is more important than precision. Understanding is more…
I have a bone to pick with Apple’s App store. Why do all the app developers need to pay a 30% fee to the device and OS developer? PC…
Cloud is getting cheap and boring: It’s about time says Nodeable blog, citing new Windows Azure price points: “Windows Azure Extra Small Compute has been reduced by 50% ($.04 to…
I haven’t yet read Reid Hoffman’s The Start-Up of You, but I already agree with his premise. He sees similarities between careers and startups in terms of what it takes…
The “moneyball” meme is getting a lot of mileage, as well it should in the age of Big Data. StartupStats is Using AngelList Data and Twitter Noise To See Which…
Candidates in Orbit by PJ O’Rourke laments the lack of vision when it comes to space policy from either side of the aisle. After an engineer states that Obama will…
Educational reform as we know it will die says Steve Peha. He makes the case that the reforms of the past few decades – testing, curriculum standards, etc. – have…