November 17, 2004
What is the best piece of software I have seen in a long time?
10:39 PM part of workIn software, paradoxical as it sounds, good craftsmanship means working fast. If you work slowly and meticulously, you merely end up with a very fine implementation of your initial, mistaken idea. Working slowly and meticulously is premature optimization. Better to get a prototype done fast, and see what new ideas it gives you.
09:03 PM part of workEvery once in a while you just have to type something, and that is all that really matters - it is the key to the whole thing.
First of all, when you first show up you need to work very, very hard - make sure that you work much harder than other people and that you become much more familiar with all the systems than anyone else. After awhile you will then be respected and you can slowly start the incompetence.
One benefit is that while you sit around all day other people will work very, very hard and yet you will still be the one they go to for answers to certain sticky situations in the system that require your experience.
Another benefit is that eventually you will realize that your work life has no meaning, and begin to question the general meaning of the rest of it.
06:45 PM part of personal[Things that I know about myself]
I completed a list of the 50 states in 20 minutes once.
I was always very bad at remembering people, but can cross-reference actors like I ate imdb.com
I was never very good at thinking about the future, but now do it more.
I had a long series of regrets, hopefully none of which matter.
I like surpising people with what I can do - and I especially like suprising myself.
I like to laugh, but am getting worse at making other people laugh as I get older.
I keep my head down in awkward situations, which is no good because I am not learning people's little signals and am not learning how to hide mine.
I have a career sort of but am not really sure how I feel about what I do for a living.
I am fascinated by weddings and funerals.
I like to read and don't do enough of it.
I don't believe in myself or am really arrogant depending on which time of day you talk to me.
05:38 PM part of personalNovember 12, 2004
I have this dream where I am in an enormous library, and I start go up to a book that I recognize and realize that I wrote it. I am pleased and pull it open - I then realize that I can't read it and start tearing out pages until there is a huge pile on the floor and all that is left is the binding.
I then move on to the next one.
07:30 PM part of personalNovember 04, 2004
Why do Democrats like water? Or, why are cities on the water and why are democrats in cities?
(I think this wrapping over the text on the right is quick striking...)
Oh, and the truth is science.
07:43 PM part of personalNovember 03, 2004
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either sucess or failure."
08:36 PM part of inspiration