Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Paul Graham – The Other Half of „Artists Ship“: „Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. This doesn’t seem to be the case in most types of work. […] If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it…

Roy Fielding – REST APIs must be hypertext-driven: „A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience (i.e., expected to be understood by any client that might use the API). From that point on, all application…

Signal vs. Noise – Hire managers of one: „A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do — set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc. —…

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Paul Graham – Disconnecting Distraction: „After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn’t realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I’d wake up, get a…

John Viega – Why geeks don’t like to run AV: „Even though I owned development for McAfee’s anti-virus technology, I did not run it at all the entire time I was there, even out of company loyalty. I did run a process NAMED the same as our AV that just fork()ed and slept, so that…

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Nati Shalom – Private/Public Cloud: „It is clear that to make IT operations more effective, it doesn’t make sense to run all the applications that are currently hosted in a company’s data center in the private cloud. […] Disaster recovery sites require us to double our resources, let alone the cost associated with maintaining two…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Daddy, Where’s Your Phone?: „What do you mean, where’s my phone?“ She explained that she’d overheard the question. Why wasn’t he just looking up the answer on his phone? Out of the mouths of babes. Vic said that he realized in that moment that the era of the PC…