- Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill – Medium
I’ve been through a couple now… have yet to see one succeed.
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Monthly Archives: February 2019
Links: 2-19-2019
- foone on Twitter: "If I was setting up curriculum at a university I’d make an entire semester-long class on The Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major.… https://t.co/XciYGJFUkQ"
Normalization of Deviance. Safety. 110%. Reliability. Resiliency.
(categories: engineering reliability resiliency deviance safety )
Links: 2-17-2019
- Questions for a new technology. | Kellan Elliott-McCrea
Quote: "… “We should use this new technology X, it’s faster, it’s better, it’s more elegant, it’s more actively developed, aren’t you committed to people learning and growing here at company Y, look I whipped up a prototype over the weekend and it’s in production, isn’t this technology amazing, huh, well fuck this fascist totalitarian state, I’m out of here.”
(categories: management technology engineering software ) - Coding The Matrix
I really would have enjoyed applying Linear Algebra like this while in school.
(categories: mathematics algebra linearAlgebra programming book python )
Links: 2-13-2019
- Blackstone’s Byron Wien Discusses Lessons Learned in His First 80 Years
So many good quotes… "Every year try doing something you have never done before that is totally out of your comfort zone. It could be running a marathon, attending a conference that interests you on an off-beat subject that will be populated by people very different from your usual circle of associates and friends or traveling to an obscure destination alone. This will add to the essential process of self-discovery."
(categories: uncomfortable life friends sleep reading long-view )
Links: 2-12-2019
- Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email – Chad Dickerson’s blog
Have been on Facebook for years for different reasons.. Forever Free from Mailchimp sounds awesome…. as does thoughtfully emailing friends.
(categories: friendship facebook email culture life )