Idle Conjectures in Search of Refutation

Working extra hours increases productivity by (at most) a small linear factor. All other things being equal, increasing from a 40 hour week ...

Discussion arising from this HBR blog post discussing CI: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/speed-up-your-product-development-without-losing-c...

It is necessary but not sufficient for something to be possible: The possibilities need to be communicated also, and we have limited capacit...

Response to: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html?view=11210073#t11210073 A lot of arguments and disagreements come about because o...

Response to: http://250bpm.com/blog:36 This sort of reminds me of Rodney Brook's commentary on essential and accidental complexity. On...

Great technical leadership guides developers to move in the same direction by articulating a clear (and simple) technical philosophy and enc...

If you create an expectation for flawless perfection, you are setting yourself up to be lied to. It is a distressingly rare thing to find ...

Shortly after I first heard of bitcoin back in 2011, my first thought was that it could be used to implement a sort of peer-to-peer exchange...

Operation Flashpoint & Armed Assault: In a serious gunfight, pretty much everybody dies. Don't join the army: It's a dumb id...

In response to: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/theres-no-real-difference-between-online-espionage-and-online-attack/...

In response to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26384712 Practice is the immediate (proximal) cause of high performance at a particular...

Issues of taste and aesthetics are not normal fodder for engineers ... but when you make something sufficiently complex, you are by necessit...

My life has not followed a straight path. There have been many detours and deviations. Never the less, if I turn my head to one side, turn ...

Developing software is a craft that aspires to be an art. It is both additive and subtractive. As we add words and letters to our formal d...

In response to: http://www.pistoncloud.com/2014/02/do-successful-programmers-need-to-be-introverted/ Q: Do successful programmers need to ...

The complexity of modern technology makes it terribly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. So many devices have been attacked and compromis...

The internet is just terrible for our sense of self-worth. We can reach out and connect to the very best and most talented individuals in th...

Silos of knowledge and expertise build up all to easily, not only as a result of human tendency towards homophily, but also because of more ...

Response to:  http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/but-it-doesnt-mean-anything.html "Code" is a horrible word. I prefer "sourc...

Written in response to: http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill-climb The number of students that complete the c...