ThenMikeCanzSaid: April 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

[GO] stackoverflow answer to adding two numbers with js
[GO] Grace Murray Hopper
After four decades of pioneering work, Admiral Hopper felt her greatest contribution had been "all the young people I've trained." She was an inspirational professor and a much sought-after speaker, in some years she addressed more than 200 audiences. In her speeches Admiral Hopper often used analogies and examples that have become legendary. Once she presented a piece of wire about a foot long, and explained that it represented a nanosecond, since it was the maximum distance electricity could travel in wire in one-billionth of a second. She often contrasted this nanosecond with a microsecond - a coil of wire nearly a thousand feet long - as she encouraged programmers not to waste even a microsecond.

[GO] Two weeks at Google >> Bogle's Blog
Always interesting to hear about how things are done at Google.
[GO] The Rest of the Lenna Story
This is an interesting story but for some reason I am not surprised.

[GO] You should aim to be the geek they never forget. - Scott Rafer's Blog
[GO] Pay attention New Zealand | Red Alert
"What a pity international governments don't seem to be able to make an agreement to ration finite resources like tuna, atmospheric carbon or fossil fuels, but instead devote their time to making an international agreement enforcing controls over something that costs no resources to copy." - Comment from Colin Jackson
[GO] Gabor hits Send: Insightful in Intervals
I like the interval to be about a week.
[GO] Gabor hits Send: The Collapse of Complexity
[GO] What's your focus? - Warpspire

[GO] Google App Engine Blog: TweetDeck and Google App Engine: A Match Made in the Cloud
As a TweetDeck user I found this interesting.
[GO] Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Harmony - Ordered List
[GO] The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell - The Tech
[GO] ZURB - Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA
[GO] Don't Core Your Workarounds - Modern Perl Books, a Modern Perl Blog
[GO] 100 Pixar characters drawn to scale
[GO] Mapping GitHub - a network of collaborative coders
[GO] Streamgraph code is available and open source
[GO] ongoing by Tim Bray * An Android Side Project

[GO] How to Get Into Stanford with B's on Your Transcript: Failed Simulations and the Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness

[GO] How To Report A Bug - Journal of schwern
[GO] Facts about Schwern - Journal of schwern
Schwern does not commit to master, master commits to Schwern.
[GO] The Story of TOMS Shoes - BIL Conference
I think I will be buying some of TOMS Shoes.
[GO] How to Do Cool Things Around the World - BIL Conference
[GO] Use your skills to help others | FlowingData
[GO] The Best SLA I've Seen In A While

[GO] rc3.org - Extreme agility
"Release management? We don't have "releases" in the traditional sense. When something is ready, it gets deployed. We might try to deploy a few things at once, but we don't have some number with a deadline that says "on this date we're releasing this version with features X, Y and Z." I guess that's "continuous deployment," if you want to label it."
[GO] Common Queries Tree