Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Scott Adams – The Avatar: „If you went anywhere this weekend, you probably found yourself in conversations about this pilot and this event. And the thing you probably talked about was his outrageous level of competence. You might have gotten chills when you heard about it. Maybe you teared up. At the very least it…

The June 12, 2005 Commencement address by Steve Jobs at Stanford University: „For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: „If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?“ And whenever the answer has been…

Clay Shirky in a Columbia Journalism Review interview by Russ Juskalian – Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I: „It seems to me, in fact, from the historical record, that the idea of literary reading as a sort of broad and normal activity was done in by television, and it was done in forty years ago.…

Gojko Adzic – The tale of two bridges: „Understanding why something is required, instead of just blindly following the tasks, is definitely one of the key practices to improve the chances of success in a software project. In my article The magic of goals, I suggested that whenever a client comes with a list of…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – „You have to treat your employees like customers“: „Over the years, whenever reporters would ask him the secret to Southwest’s success, Mr. Kelleher had a stock response. “You have to treat your employees like customers,” he told Fortune in 2001. “When you treat them right, then they will…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Hard Work and Practice in Programming: „There’s a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success. But it’s important to remember how much we lose when we think that ease of use is everything.…

chromatic at O’Reilly Broadcast – What are Your Force Multipliers in Software Development?: „I can’t imagine a world without diff and patch. On the occasion when I need to massage a patch by hand, I recognize how fortunate we are to be able to identify only the differences between systems.“

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise cites Christopher Alexander – Christopher Alexander on the difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice: „The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes.…

Tim Bray – Mobile Gold: „We are, right now in early 2009, sliding into the golden age of mobile technology and business. […] What’s crucial is that there will be at least four players—all with healthy finances and real engineering depth—vying to build devices to improve your life. Which is wonderful! This kind of competition…

Search Components Online – Search Vendors Directory: „So who are the main players in Enterprise Search?“