One of my favorite Simpsons episodes has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion (YouTube Video). One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens ‘It was the...
One of the members of Google’s Wave team left Google and explained why in a blog post. One of most curious statements he makes is “Google’s vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete.” He doesn’t say why or give any proof as to...
I have written quite a bit about how broken software interviews are. I found a good write up on other suggestions for interviews. I think the best suggestion is: Let me offer a humble proposal: don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever....
Most people know I am not a big fan of Apple. I should clarify this as I am not a fan of Apple’s software (malware, what malware?). Their hardware, on the other hand, is well made and very nice. In my humble opinion, the best laptop on the market in a MacBook...
For the past 10 years I have had a cell phone and for 5 of those years I had a smartphone. I recently switched jobs and my previous company paid for my smartphone. As a result, I lost my smartphone and decided to spend some time without one. In many ways, the company...
