Learning something new every day.
Review/Summary of The Mythical Man Month
My review and summary of The Mythical Man Month.
The New Yorker – The real numbers on illegal immigration
The New Yorker does some fact checking of politicians harping on illegal immigration.
Paul Graham – How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham on how to start a tech firm.
Ars Technica – Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn’t get the iPad
Steve Ballmer clueless on what makes the iPad such a phenomenal computing device.
EETimes – The legend of the superprogrammer
Really awesome programmers don’t help when the complexity of the project is so larger one person can’t manage the project themselves.
FiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live Cap-and-Trade
Nate Silver once again wins points for not just being a great statistician but an astute political observer.
52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight
Let’s focus on making great software that delights the customer, ok.
BBC News – US border violence: Myth or reality?
BBC News gets into the act on discussing the myth behind the Texas/Mexico border being super violent.
Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things
People believe in irrational things because they accept the evidence for it, they just typically don’t access all of the evidence or the evidence that is more accurate.
Got any book recommendations?