Jun 27, 2007
“Airline chaos is the travel story of this year.
permalink
* *
Jun 27, 2007
“Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. The area’s so-called “Golden Triangle” of wealthy neighborhoods is formed by Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel-Air and Holmby Hills.
permalink
* *
Jun 27, 2007
“Good developers take ownership so you don’t have to.
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
“Once you are past your base set of code, the percentage dedicated to server side code starts to increase. This is primarily due to added complexity of features and other enhancements (spam protection, security, error handling, etc.) that do not necessarily have an interface element attached to them.
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
“To imagine that
Bret Victor spends a lot of his time collecting jokes for his examples (like you and me) does him a gross injustice.
— me
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
“The point of
this Churchill quote: failures are point events, but success is a process.
— me
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
“Existential angst just happens when we don’t like what we are doing. Asking why we are here is a hard problem, but if the problem’s really just liking what you do, that is much easier. Just realizing that the problem is easier gave me a lift.
— me
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
“In the beginning don’t worry about how you will organize what you write. Write ideas down because writing them down is strictly better than not writing them down.
The only concern is to set things up to make writing easy, and so improve the odds you will sustain the habit.
— me
permalink
* *
Jun 26, 2007
Srikanth: It must be an old paper, the symbol for ‘computer display’ is a CRT monitor.
me: Not necessarily. The old symbols are more recognizeable than their modern counterparts.
permalink
* *