Story About The Start Of Scientific Management
An older article from The Atlantic, on Management Myths. Telling comment from the viewpoint of Scientific Managementthe science of handling pig iron is so great and amounts to so much that it is...
View ArticleMagical Thinking
There is a constant refrain that occurs whenever people try to achieve anythingThere must be an easier wayWe learn this lesson at an early age and never forget it. The toy problems we are “challenged”...
View ArticleDealing With Aging Infrastructure
Now that the last shuttle launch has taken place, and with no replacement yet available, it is sobering to think that some bits of infrastructure are even older than the Space Shuttle.Car and Driver...
View ArticleEven the Onion gets on on the act
Had to smile at this one.We Need To Do More When It Comes To Having Brief, Panicked Thoughts About Climate Change
View ArticleSome thoughts about the media
Seems strange to be linking to an article in Slate…The mainstream media thrives on simple solutions. It has no idea whatsoever of how to report on a story that isn’t about easy fixes so much as it is...
View ArticleWhy isn't the source code as simple as the software?
Don’t normally link to Dave winer, but his The bosses do everything better is priceless…When he looked at the code he must have been shocked to find something complex and intricate. Why isn’t the...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Value Of Code
Recently Jim Bird had to point out that Source Code is an Asset, Not a Liability. Unfortunately it means that there are people in the software development community that are not aware of the literature...
View ArticleDealing With Transitions
Looks like we are starting to live in what could be called Interesting Times. Although Moore’s Law still seems to be holding out a bit longer, individually the cores in CPUs are not that much faster...
View ArticleTransitions II
Just noticed that CNC machines are getting to be cheap as well. A sample guide to CNC machines looks at how they can be used in conjunction with moulding techniques to fabricate moulds for plastic...
View ArticleWhat Programmers Want is Less Stupid
As usual, The Codist is slightly controversial and bluntly states that What Programmers Want is Less Stupid and More Programming.So no matter what you do the best programmers will motivate themselves...
View ArticleSoftware Craftsmanship depends on developers knowing the craft of coding
Many software developers do not seem to understand the basics of our craft. Recently I’ve seen SQL queries that were massively more complex than they needed to be - that when simplified, without any...
View ArticleSo much universe, and so little time
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.Some quotes from Terry PratchettThe whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has...
View ArticleFirefox is going to lose a lot of developers (and users)
Somehow or other the Firefox community has convinced itself that scanning add-ons for vulnerabilities and malware is a good idea. Luckily Dan Stillman the developer of Zotero called them out on it...
View ArticleQuestions to ponder about sharing information on Facebook
An interesting take on the implications of sharing data on Facebook… What should you think about when using Facebook?We are social animals, and we are wired to want to connect, want approval, want to...
View ArticleThe Web is no longer Open, DRM now part of W3C standards
The EFF has resigned from the consortium because Today, the W3C bequeaths an legally unauditable attack-surface to browsers used by billions of people.
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