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"In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:10:33 +0200

“In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery. [2]”

- What Happened to Yahoo

"The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every..."

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:29:54 +0100

“The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day. If you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time. It’s really about how important the task is to you. I’m sure if you were having a heart attack, you’d magically find time to go to the hospital. That time would come from something else you’d planned to do, but now seems less important. This is how time works all the time. What people really mean when they say “I don’t have time” is this thing is not important enough to earn my time. It’s a polite way to tell people they’re not worth your time.”

- The cult of busy « Scott Berkun

"Ready? OK, let’s start with a short quiz. Question 1. Do you write perfect code the first time? If..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:05:26 +0100

“Ready? OK, let’s start with a short quiz. Question 1. Do you write perfect code the first time? If you answered “Yes” to question 1, you’re a liar and a cheat. You fail. Take the test again.”

- HgInit: Subversion Re-education

"Flickr’s mantra is graph, graph, graph everything that moves."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:04:58 +0100

“Flickr’s mantra is graph, graph, graph everything that moves.”

- What Second Life can teach about scaling - Laughing Meme

"You can’t keep your technical expertise on respected level in the meantime, between performance..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:37:19 +0100

“You can’t keep your technical expertise on respected level in the meantime, between performance review of your team member and 3-hour status meeting with your manager. You either keep your hands busy with writing code or you get disconnected with other developers out there.”

- Technical Leadership and People Management

"When they were engineers they had simple verification of their work: test passed, client didn’t..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:33:49 +0100

“When they were engineers they had simple verification of their work: test passed, client didn’t complain thus everything was good. With management it isn’t so easy. Their team won’t come to them to say they suck.”

- Big Companies and Status Quo

"I should be rewarded for results, not how much time it took me to get them. A good manager knows..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:18:47 +0100

“I should be rewarded for results, not how much time it took me to get them. A good manager knows this. (…) They knew I’d be motivated to work hardest for them if after I got my stuff done, and had done it very well, I was free to do as I wished. (Oddly, in cultures like this, I tended to stay late and kept working because I enjoyed my work so much).”

- Should Americans get more vacation? « Scott Berkun

"— So when can I use all this stuff? — Hahahahahaha. You must be new here."

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:39:26 +0100

“— So when can I use all this stuff? — Hahahahahaha. You must be new here.”

- The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » What’s next in HTML, episode 2: who’s been peeing in my sandbox?

"If you’re ever debugging a problem and you see the number 42-mumble-mumble-mumble-7295 you’ve run..."

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:31:29 +0100

“If you’re ever debugging a problem and you see the number 42-mumble-mumble-mumble-7295 you’ve run out of 32-bit storage. If you see 2-mumble-mumble-mumble-647 (2147483647) you’ve run out of signed 32-bit storage. 167-mumble-mumble-15 (16777215) you’ve run out of 24-bits and 65-mumble-mumble-35 (65535) you’ve run out of 16-bits of integers.”

- 4294967295 and MySQL INT(20) Syntax Blows - Laughing Meme

"So what to do then? The answer is less. Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:33:10 +0100

“So what to do then? The answer is less. Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to everyone else. Instead of oneupping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.”

- Getting Real: Build Less (by 37signals)

"Yahoo!’s search results page used to have a truecolor PNG sprite and employed AlphaImageLoader to..."

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:25:37 +0100

“Yahoo!’s search results page used to have a truecolor PNG sprite and employed AlphaImageLoader to achieve the transparency (an older version of the sprite is still around if you’re curious). Replacing the truecolor PNG with a gracefully degrading PNG8 (discussed previously) decreased the pageload time by 50-100ms for the users of IE 5 and 6. 100ms may not seem like much, but for a page that loads under a second, it’s at least 10%. Also, according to an Amazon study, 100ms slower means 1% fewer sales (even for their content-heavy pages). Earning 1% more by just replacing an image doesn’t look like a bad deal at all.”

- Image Optimization, Part 5: AlphaImageLoader » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

Z perspektywy potencjalnego pracodawcy, człowiek np. po bibliotekoznawstwie, który twierdzi, że zna...

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:50:00 +0100

Z perspektywy potencjalnego pracodawcy, człowiek np. po bibliotekoznawstwie, który twierdzi, że zna się na informatyce jest dla mnie o wiele lepszym kandydatem na pracownika niż magister informatyki z piątkami na świadectwie. Powód jest prosty: bibliotekoznawca jest prawdopodobnie pasjonatem, magister informatyki niekoniecznie. Dodatkowo bibliotekoznawca najprawdopodobniej rozwija swoje informatyczne umiejętności, bo potrzebuje ich do rozwiązania jakiegoś bardzo praktycznego, przyziemnego problemu. Ot — pragmatyzm.