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Microsoft is dead

Duh, can you program hello world? Duh, can you write me a form with a button? Jheesh, I mean, who cares if you know you’re way around an IDE or a language? Just because I can carve the Sunday roast doesn’t mean I should be applying for surgical positions at my closest hospital. What's with the "programming test"!?

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Developers write product code, and possibly some quantity of tests. Testers write tests, possibly test tools, and never product code. Have you ever considered whether another arrangement might work better? Let's Go Bust Some Silos!

Deadlines: On Being a Professional Software Developer

When people think of tools for social interaction, email and instant messenger are at the top of their list, not web browsers. Keep track of your friends with The Coop

Palm T|X, a GTD i nie tylko

1. Design quality is people-sensitive.
2. Design quality is change-specific.
3. Modification and maintenance time are more important than creation time.
4. Design quality is unpredictable. Defining Design Quality

Hallmarks of Felinity

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Strategy Wiki -- the free walkthrough wiki

Design Patterns in Haskell: push and pull

The term "nibble" originates from the fact that the term "byte" is a pun on the English word "bite". A nibble is a small bite, which in this context is "humorously" construed as "half a bite". Nibble

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Key Differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1

The REST Dialogues: part I (Getting Data)

If you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. Enterprise software companies aren't technology companies, they're sales companies, and sales depends mostly on effort. Paul Graham, "Why to Not Not Start a Startup"

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The problem isn't so much that these ideas are so arcane that they should come from a textbook whenever they are used. The problem is that our expression of these simple ideas is overly complex. Fundamental Ideas of Computing

Reading through Twisted documentation and API.

You say "there's not a lot of me left anymore - just leave it alone. But if you're buy, and you have the time, tell the Northern Lights to keep shining - Lately it seems like they're drowning" Tori Amos

Aurora

Say what you mean, mean what you say

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Walka z neoliberalizmem powinna się w dużej mierze toczyć w przestrzeni informacyjnej, w globalnej informacyjnej sieci. Grzegorz Stunża

Strangling Your Code and Growing Your Test Harness: The 9 Phases of Building Automated Tests Into Legacy Code

If the culture is broken, the fastest way to make enemies is to do more than everyone around you. In software no good deed goes unpunished

Promotional language imposes a cognitive burden on users who have to spend resources on filtering out the hyperbole to get at the facts. When people read a paragraph that starts "Nebraska is filled with internationally recognized attractions," their first reaction is no, it's not, and this thought slows them down and distracts them from using the site. How Users Read on the Web

del.icio.us survey

<riko> Hey. We're talking bout 2 hours but I still don't know where are you from. ;)
<ogarevitsh> Poland. What about you?
<riko> Kurwa... Bash #182563

You must have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Advice on How to Become a Programmer

Every company that writes software needs to make training a top priority. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years