In reaction to No Silver Programmers, several people have spoken to the compounding benefits of good programmers (or the compounding pain of bad programmers). This is an excellent point. I think it's best put in \<a href="http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/01/garlic-programmers-for-silver-code.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer …
more ...She's got to get a CT to confirm, but basically the Doctor told her "no problem." So ends probably the least-productive week of the past several years...
My sincere thanks to everyone who got in touch and kept us in your thoughts. It really helped.
more ...Sometimes I move a penny around on a poster, but this tutorial of creating a Popfly mashup takes things up a notch.
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more ...My initial reaction to this is fear that Sun will try to force things a little too hard. When I think of MySQL, I think of ease-of-use and reliability. When I think of SQL Server and Oracle, I think of the ancillary tools and the fierceness with which DBAs cling …
more ...Actually, just a brief post. LINQ has injected into the mainstream a whole range of functional programming topics previously seen as esoteric. Putting aside the merits of each of them, the interesting dynamic to watch will be if these approaches generate a new sub-niche of programming. For instance, C++ templates …
more ...In response to "No Silver Programmers," a commenter points out:
more ...Say I'm a pretty good developer and there's this guy who is 5x worse than me, meaning it takes him a full work week to finish what i will finish in a day.
but then, what happens when it has …
Someone who should know better gave a commencement address based on the premise "5% of programmers are 20x more productive than the other 95%." This is utter BS and it's important to say so. First, as boring as it may be to say "we don't have the data," go to …
more ...Tina was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 29 and we were newlyweds. Two years ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I got home from a business trip to find out that her routine dental x-rays had led to a referral to a dental surgeon because two things might …
more ...I was reading PC Magazine's 25th anniversary issue in which they have the evergreen "what will the future bring?" essays. I was struck by how much talk of medical stuff (nanobots, non-invasive diagnosis, ubiquitous this-and-that) there was. And then it struck me:
Boomers.
Just as they do with every damn …
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