January 2011
10 posts
4 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.”
– Banksy
3 tags
1 tag
WatchLoving these gorgeous visuals for live music by lvl-estudio and Joshua Catalano.
1 tag
Fact And Folklore In Software Engineering →
“For instance, should we assume that programmer productivity could only be zero or greater? This is to ignore the notion of net negative productivity programmers: team members who not only do not contribute to a team’s productivity but in fact destroy others.
Do we clearly distinguish between effort and outcomes in our notions of productivity? A programmer may seem improductive because...
1 tag
The first decade of the future is behind us →
“The year is 2010. America has been at war for the first decade of the 21st century and is recovering from the largest recession since the Great Depression. Air travel security uses full-body X-rays to detect weapons and bombs. The president, who is African-American, uses a wireless phone, which he keeps in his pocket, to communicate with his aides and cabinet members from anywhere in the...
1 tag
“…the removal of the crosshairs becomes a code for “target that has been...”
– Signs in the Crosshairs, an article by Natalia Ilyin.
2 tags
5 tags
