The Rise of “Worse is Better” is a famous essay by Richard Gabriel – Distinguished Engineer and Principle Investigator at Sun Microsystems, which closely related to the “It’s Not Software” article that I’ve just blogged about. The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing … Continue reading The Rise of “Worse is Better”
I’ve been pointed to the (now abandoned) blog of Steve Yegge way too many times. But for some reason I never read it. Maybe it’s the look of it. Maybe it’s because of the lengthy articles. But that’s a fact – I haven’t read a single post there until today, desipte the URLs being saved … Continue reading Technology related reading – Steve Yegge
Can Your Programming Language Do This? post by Joel Spolsky can give you some insight on why people use different programming languages, as well as provide you with some doubts on wheathere are you using the proper tool. …programming languages with first-class functions let you find more opportunities for abstraction, which means your code is … Continue reading Can your programming language do this?
If you’ve smiled with Heather Armstrong and like that, you better check Scott Adams’ blog, because this guys is as hilarious as noone. Really. Here are a couple of examples. This post provides an insight on the war in the Middle East. It explains the roots of the problem, as well suggests a solution. A … Continue reading Scott Adams on everything from airplane security to politics
I have fully moved to GMail. I have yet to import my existing archives, but I lovin’ it already as it is. My exim+procmail+mutt setup is great, but GMail is better for my current needs. It is, of course, less configurable, but Things That I Really Care About ™ (TTIRCA) do work and need practically no … Continue reading I love GMail