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I think most programmers spend the first 5 years of their career mastering complexity, and the rest of their lives learning simplicity.
Initial gut reaction to Google Wave: technology history is littered with high concept, monolithic attempts to reinvent human collaboration.
Setting your profile location to Tehran or tinting your icon green is the hipster techie equivalent of slapping a ribbon on your minivan.
The law of meme dialectics: given sufficient popularity, any meme will eventually create an anti-meme of equal or greater annoyance.
Nothing makes me more skeptical of a company than an ad looking for "rockstar" engineers. Give me "quietly competent" engineers any day.
Yet another acquaintance from SF has expressed surprise that NYC has hipsters. Guess what SF: you didn't invent food or casual sex either.
QA tip: if you really want to find the bugs lurking in your software, try using it while you're drunk.
Have a SQLite-backed iPhone application? Notice a gradual decrease in performance as the database grows? Google "PRAGMA CACHE_SIZE."
Aaron Swartz's post about hiring programmers is the best thing I've ever read on the subject. I could not agree more. http://bit.ly/8Af66V
If iPhone programming was "Oregon Trail," the 0xE8000001 error would be "You have died of dysentery."
Everyone involved with the @lettersapp project should read this essay about what went wrong with the Chandler project: http://bit.ly/10Fltq
I think Apple's behavior can almost always be explained by one thing: they make it up as they go along. They're not evil, just clueless.
In a cafe, watching a guy use iTunes Connect on his laptop and wondering what his app is. Sometimes I wish I had Shazam for people.
...aaand, predictably, the misdirected Buzz Aldrin replies have commenced. I look forward to answering everyone's questions about the moon.
Briana, on spotting three gothy-looking hipsters: "They look like something we'd create in Rock Band."
Wearing my " Get Excited and Make Things" shirt today. Someone on the subway just asked if I'm that "42 Folders" guy.
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