February 2011
7 posts
“Dignity, as Bob Dylan once said, has never been photographed. Most people wouldn’t know they had it until the day they lost it completely.”
—Nikolai Grozni : The Ghost of Revolutions Past
Won't Get Fooled Again (Extended)
The Who
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More →
readwriteweb.com
Especially of note is the Polish Cowboy attitude towards testing that I share on a daily basis:
My development process is quite primitive. I run a local copy of the site on my laptop, test changes manually, check them in, and then deploy to the production server. The only similarity to agile development is the use of frequent small deployments.
The following paragraph was quoted by Simon Willison and is what brought this article to attention
“I would describe this process as a hideous kludge; not because the Googlers who cooked it up went off the road, but because the misguided rocket scientists drove these links so far off the road that there wasn’t an unkludgey way back onto it.”
—ongoing by Tim Bray · Broken Links
“This isn’t nanny-state paternalism but an accepted role of government: public health. If you support seat-belt, tobacco and alcohol laws, sewer systems and traffic lights, you should support legislation curbing the relentless marketing of soda and other foods that are hazardous to our health — including the sacred cheeseburger and fries.”
—Mark Bittman A Food Manifesto for the Future
