Pure gold, every line is something I wish I wrote from my own experience…
tags: business
Archive for October, 2011
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2011 by wjwjThe New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2011 by wjwj“Why don’t scientists share?”
“A good start would be for government grant agencies (like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation) to work with scientists to develop requirements for the open sharing of knowledge that is discovered with public support. Such policies have already helped to create open data sets like the one for the human genome. But they should be extended to require earlier and broader sharing. Grant agencies also should do more to encourage scientists to submit new kinds of evidence of their impact in their fields—not just papers!—as part of their applications for funding.”
Of course, they already do that – OpenClinica was originally funded by an NIH SBIR grant, for example.
tags: science
Henry Rollins: World Traveler, Photographer, Ice Cream Man. Part 1 of an Interview with the Legend: Austinist
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2011 by wjwjThe second coming of Java – Cringely on technology
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 by wjwj“There’s a continuous revolution taking place in web development as platforms and tools evolved first to handle dynamic pages and now cloud services. But sometimes what goes around comes around so I’m predicting a resurgence of Java and Java-like languages as rotating storage goes into decline.”
tags: java
Bio
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 by wjwjSteve Jobs, BMW & eBay
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2011 by wjwj“Apple so easily could have gone the way of SGI, the way of Sun. Instead, it literally shapes the future of the industry. All because in 1997 Steve was able to offer a simple and compelling reason for Apple to exist. A purpose. And it’s a purpose that managed to aggregate some of the most talented people in the world to do some of their best work. Again and again.”
tags: apple
The True Cost of Commuting
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2011 by wjwj“Because these two full-time professional workers currently happen to live and work in “Broomfield”, a city that is about 19 miles and 40 minutes of mixed high-traffic driving away from here. They brushed off the potential commute, saying “Oh, 40 minutes, that’s not too bad.”
Yes, actually it IS too bad! … But this misconception about what is a reasonable commute is probably the biggest thing that is keeping most people in the US and Canada poor.”
tags: money
Steve Jobs Tribute in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2011 by wjwjNormally, Businessweek comes on Friday. For some reason this week, the magazine showed up today instead. I didn’t think much of it when I walked out to the driveway, actually. There it was, folded up in its weatherproof bag, just like usual.
tags: 2011
Web apps are dead, long live web apps
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2011 by wjwj“So what do we do? It’s time to re-tool: that server side framework is on the wrong tier. We need to move it to the client. Backbone.js is the best client side MVC framework I’ve used, but there are certainly others.”
tags: javascript
