My horoscope for today says:
Use today’s influences to free up tomorrow. This will be an excellent day for tying up any loose ends or clearing up any outstanding chores or duties, whether you’re at work or school, or at home. A helpful surge of energy will get you motivated early on and will keep you [...]
A big part of software development is making hard problems into easy problems, but sometimes it’s essential for your sanity to work on easy problems that you know how to solve. I call this “going for the easy win” or sometimes “picking the low-hanging fruit.” While it might give you a lot of bragging rights [...]
Programmers have big egos. It’s not like it’s a big secret or something; we’re used to being right, and it can be very difficult for us to admit when we’re wrong. And, God help you if you ever have to say:
I don’t know.
If you say that, no one will ever respect you again, and you’ll [...]
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. — Mary Ellen Kelly
Wikipedia briefly defines “magical thinking” as “nonscientific causal reasoning,” and it can be broadly applied to all kinds of superstitious behavior. We all know someone who believes [...]
Sarcasm is a powerful tool that any good developer should know how to wield effectively. I just spent the last hour or so watching a rather amusing presentation by Cal Henderson at DjangoCon08:
While I found the talk to actually be both informative and entertaining, what I mainly noted was the pure sarcasm dripping from the [...]
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