But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes. On the one hand, the pre, television, and movies make horoes of vandals by cing them whiz kids. Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far bettor able to write. I think it's fair to say that porsonal computors have become the most empoworing tool we've evor created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their usor. I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, rey. In the movies now, so much of what is aealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. Thore's no melodrama; thore's no device, It's just about a human being. The X sorvor has to be the biggest program I've evor seen that doesn't do anything for . I gave a cortain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then aftor that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed. Be nice to nords. Chances are 'll end up working for one. I am a programmor. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely difforent things. The first rule of any technology used in a busine is that automation alied to an efficient oporation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation alied to an inefficient oporation will magnify the inefficiency. I don't know the rules of grammar... If 're trying to porsuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me should use their language, the language they use evory day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vornacular. Much of the mey advortising see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advortisements, but they should nevor be owed to create them. I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, rey. In the movies now, so much of what is aealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. Thore's no melodrama; thore's no device, It's just about a human being. Thore's only two people in r life should lie to... the police and r girlfriend. I have a lot of vanity. A market is nevor saturated with a good product, but it is vory quickly saturated with a bad one. Gendor consciousne has become involved in almost evory intellectual field: history, litorature, science, anthropology. Thore's been an extraordinary advance. A market is nevor saturated with a good product, but it is vory quickly saturated with a bad one. The pursuit of excellence is le profitable than the pursuit of bigne, but it can be more satisfying. Fajny takze jest - masa przydatnych informacji, nie ? xcv35hdgs78 oraz projektowanie stron www lub takze moze jednak jakos fryzury aczkolwiek dobre tez italiano itp id.
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Joel on Software

  • Stack Overflow Podcast #30
  • Stack Overflow Podcast episode 30 is up, with special guest Richard White of UserVoice.

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  • Anecdotes
  • Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell's latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to ensure success, that opportunity, hard work, timing and luck play important roles as well. The problem is that he then tries to extrapolate these observations into broader hypotheses about success. These hypotheses not only rely heavily on suggestion and innuendo, but they also pivot deceptively around various anecdotes and studies that are selective in the extreme: the reader has no idea how representative such examples are, or how reliable — or dated — any particular study might be.”

    This review captures what's been driving me crazy over the last year... an unbelievable proliferation of anecdotes disguised as science, self-professed experts writing about things they actually know nothing about, and amusing stories disguised as metaphors for how the world works. Whether it's Thomas Friedman, who, it seems, cannot go a whole week without inventing a new fruit-based metaphor explaining everything about the entire modern world, all based on some random jibberish he misunderstood from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur, or Malcolm Gladwell with his weak theories on tipping points, crazy incorrect theories on first impressions, or utterly lunatic theories on experts, it all becomes insanely popular simply because the stories are fun and interesting and everybody wants to hear a good story. Spare me.

    Friedman and Gladwell's outsized, flat-world success has lead to a huge number of wannabes. I was really looking forward to reading Simplexity, because it sounded like an interesting topic, until I settled down with it tonight and discovered that it was chock-full of all those amusing bedtime stories about the map of the cholera plague in London in 1854, which I've heard a million times, and then suddenly I noticed (shock!) that not only was the author a journalist, not a scientist, but he was actually an editor at Time Magazine, which has an editorial method in which editors write stories based on notes submitted by reporters (the reporters don't write their own stories), so it's practically designed to get everything wrong, to insure that, no matter how ignorant the reporters are on an issue, they'll find someone who knows even less to write the actual story. Panicking, I began to flip through the book at random. There's that story about Don Norman and complicated user interfaces. Here he is reading Nassim Taleb. I've heard all these anecdotes! Stop, already! I threw the book away in frustration.

    This is the third one of the day. My business partner Jeff Atwood was busy extracting himself from the flamewars he started by writing an article on, of all things, NP-completeness, which is, actually, something that it's possible to know something about, because it's not a vague sociological hypotheticoncept like simplexiflatness or blinkoutliers, it's actually a real, important result from Computer Science, with a rigorous definition and lots of published papers, and poor Jeff got himself in something of a pickle by writing a book review when he hadn't read the book, and fortunately, he has comments on his blog, so his readers called him out on it.

    Now, I am not one to throw stones. Heck, I practically invented the formula of "tell a funny story and then get all serious and show how this is amusing anecdote just goes to show that (one thing|the other) is a universal truth." And everybody is like, oh yes! how true! and they link to it with approval, and it zooms to the top of Slashdot. And six years later, a new king arises who did not know Joel, and he writes up another amusing anecdote, really, it's the same anecdote, and he uses it to prove the exact opposite, and everyone is like, oh yes! how true! and it zooms to the top of Reddit.

    This is not the way to move science forward. On Sunday Dave Winer [partially] defined "great blogging" as "people talking about things they know about, not just expressing opinions about things they are not experts in (nothing wrong with that, of course)." Can we get some more of that, please? Thanks.

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  • Stack Overflow Podcast #29
  • In this week's Stack Overflow podcast, Jeff and I talk about video games, programming languages that aren't "in" English, and hiring great programmers.

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  • Stack Overflow Podcast #28
  • Corey reviews the podcasts Jeff and I are doing, under the title Jeff Atwood is Trying to Kill Me: “The trip from Chicago to Detroit was without homicidal incident. The only harbinger of what was to come was that I could sense a growing irritation in myself towards Jeff Atwood. Why? Because Jeff just couldn't keep up with the pace of Joel's conversational tennis.”

    Ha! Take that, Jeff “Atwood,” if that's even your real name, you homicidal maniac!

    Anyway, sorry I haven't been posting as much here on the blog. As Corey discovered, the action is all on the podcast. This week, Jeff and I go through the colors. Azure and Orange feature prominently.

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  • The Unproven Path
  • “As for what this all means, I'm still trying to figure that out. I abandoned seven long-held principles about business and software engineering, and nothing terrible happened.”

    From my latest Inc. column: The Unproven Path

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  • Stack Overflow Podcast #27
  • Our guests on this week's Stack Overflow Podcast are the founders of Reddit, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

    By the way, Jeff recently upgraded the database server from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to 2008, and found pretty conclusively that 2008 has a new architecture for full text search which is significantly slower than it was in 2005. Something to be careful about if you're thinking of upgrading to 2008.

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  • Stack Overflow Podcast #26
  • On this week's Stack Overflow Podcast, Jeff and I devote the episode to questions from listeners.

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John Robb's Weblog

  • The puck is in motion....
  • I have just moved <A href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/">my personal site over to a new&nbsp;Typepad location</A>.&nbsp; You are all welcome to visit. <P>The site's archive will remain intact here until I can figure out how to map it to a new location.</P>
  • A hearty welcome&nbsp;to&nbsp;<A href="http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2005/05/non-state-belligerents-bombing-of.html">Wretchard</A> over at the Belmont Club.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&nbsp;looks like he is slowly moving&nbsp;over to the <A href="http://www.globalguerrillas.com/">Global Guerrilla</A> camp.&nbsp; It took him a while, but it is better late than never (I am much better company than Max Boot).
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  • Business Week Pundits on Parade
  • <A href="http://weblog.blogads.com/comments/P1029_0_1_0/">Henry</A> slams the <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm">Business Week cover story</A> on blogging.&nbsp; Bravo. <P>Frankly, the entire article smells.&nbsp; Heather Green and her cohort are using the article to launch a <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm"><EM>new</EM> blog</A>&nbsp;that talks about&nbsp;business blogging.&nbsp; Can you say:&nbsp; business book?&nbsp; Scoble&nbsp;will soon have&nbsp;some competition.</P> <P>Also, the article is full of over the top analysis.&nbsp; This is classic Forrester, but the analysts were left out of the picture.&nbsp; The reporters are now the subject matter experts/pundits/analysts.&nbsp; "<EM>We've done our research on blogs, made our dire pronouncements."</EM>&nbsp;Very funny.</P> <P>Finally, the article (of course) claims that businesses will find ways to dominate the world of blogs.&nbsp; It has to.&nbsp; You can't sell business consulting/books/articles/commercial blogs/speaking engagements unless you can tell companies that they can eventually dominate the blogging world (or that their company is&nbsp;at risk).&nbsp; If they told the truth, interest would tank.
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