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"It’s better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:31:23 -0500

“It’s better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all.”

- Commenter on HN

Weekend hackers; now on a tumblr near you

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:41:38 -0500

Me and @th3dz are live in my kitchen, trying to get some sort of rails app up and running in the next day or so.

Follow the progress on http://satsuncoding.tumblr.com/ where we will try to document the process and frustration.

whats up

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:03:25 -0400

Vacation

"Procrastinators - Leaders of tomorrow"

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:38:20 -0400

“Procrastinators - Leaders of tomorrow”

- T-Shirt on random guy

"A salesman has to deal with customers, and a developer has to deal with competitors’ software,..."

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:57:12 -0400

“A salesman has to deal with customers, and a developer has to deal with competitors’ software, but a system administarator, like an old bachelor, has few external forces to keep him in line”

- Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:22:39 -0400

It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.:

Datamining stackoverflow to provide some interesting statistics.

TL;DR version at the bottom of the post

Number of coders drops significantly with age. Top developer numbers, at age 27, drop by half every 6-7 years.
Developers in their 40s answer roughly twice as much and ask half the questions compared to colleagues in their 20s. It seems younger generation learns and older generation teaches.
Quality of posts, i.e. upvotes earned by post, only slightly increases with age.
Seniors earn their high reputation by being more active than younger developers.

"Those things you have to write in school are not only not essays, they’re one of the most pointless..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 10:43:18 -0400

“Those things you have to write in school are not only not essays, they’re one of the most pointless of all the pointless hoops you have to jump through in school.”

- A Version 1.0 essay by Paul Graham

Raw Syntax: Importance of Side Projects

Mon, 30 May 2011 05:22:07 -0400

Raw Syntax: Importance of Side Projects:

rawsyntax:

Side projects are important for a few reasons. Programming is a creative process. Side projects allow programming without deadlines or restraints. Side projects allow programming in an exploratory way.

Explore new technologies

Every day there are more and more bleeding edge technologies coming…

The startup genome project - The first report is in

Sun, 29 May 2011 11:53:16 -0400

The startup genome project - The first report is in:

And so the wait for the backlash from scholars of scientific method begins.

Interesting read, can’t wait to see what they produce later on.

"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! - edw519

Sat, 21 May 2011 08:46:53 -0400

"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! - edw519:

Ed Weissman built a book out of his HN comments.

It made me think about how much you actually write during a lifetime that could be compiled into a book with minimal editing.

The free “book” consist of answers to all those questions we all know and love. I call these kinds of questions productivity-porn and procrastination enablers.

It also reminds me that I have to start a new blog in the fall when I start working. Explanation and reflection reinforces learning right?

First Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Opens in London

Wed, 18 May 2011 08:57:25 -0400

First Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Opens in London:

Take “first” with a grain of salt, it’s been around for a while. Perhaps this is the first hedgefund that is upfront about it?

But the idea that you can predict the stock market by analyzing the general populations state of mind is really really interesting to me.

For a description read Bollen, Mao and Zeng’s paper “Twitter mood predicts the stock market”.

So, will it work? That depends on several factors such as wether or not it’s actually an accurate assumption that analysis done this way works in enough cases.

On TermKit | Steven Wittens - Acko.net

Wed, 18 May 2011 08:50:14 -0400

On TermKit | Steven Wittens - Acko.net:

The terminal has remained the same since the 70’s. Is it because it’s so good or because no decent replacement has surfaced?

TermKit tries to bring the terminal to the next level/into this decade.

This went right into my watched section on GitHub

99 Percent Of Android Devices Are Vulnerable To Password Theft

Wed, 18 May 2011 08:21:10 -0400

99 Percent Of Android Devices Are Vulnerable To Password Theft:

Researchers at Germany’s University of Ulm have made some unsettling discoveries about the security of the Android platform. According to an article from The Register, the research group…

Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t

Tue, 17 May 2011 16:28:41 -0400

Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t:

This is an interesting article and something I have been pondering for a while.

TL;DR version: Get experience in several different technologies to become better.

Announcements: Just-In-Time Business Cards

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:55:16 -0400

Announcements: Just-In-Time Business Cards:

As you may have noticed, I am a big fan of souvenirs, trinkets, and tchotchkes. And I know I’m not alone. Whenever I go to a conference, at least half of my fellow attendees join me in the…

Lady Gaga goes gaga over Ubuntu

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:04:55 -0400

Lady Gaga goes gaga over Ubuntu:

After enthralling the techies at Google last week, Lady Gaga has given her geek fans another reason to smile. In a press conference this Monday, the Grammy award-winning singer confessed that she is…

CodeSOD: No Letters Allowed!

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:16:34 -0400

CodeSOD: No Letters Allowed!:

“The data validation requirements for a telephone number are dead simple,” writes Chris M., “Just the numbers and that’s it. The user can enter their numbers with dashes, brackets, parens,…

In Silicon Valley, a Lack of Engineers - NYTimes.com

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:06:41 -0400

In Silicon Valley, a Lack of Engineers - NYTimes.com:

Times are changing..

This Bacteria is Violating Copyright

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:00:09 -0400

This Bacteria is Violating Copyright:

What would have been science fiction twenty years ago is now so mundane that it’s caught in the frustrating labyrinth of copyright law.

Back in May 2010, geneticist J. Craig Venter announced the…

Inkling makes deals for e-textbooks with key publishers

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:56:17 -0400

Inkling makes deals for e-textbooks with key publishers:

While many companies are talking about making the iPad the platform for electronic textbooks, one San Francisco startup appears to be moving boldly into making the dream a reality.

Inkling…