I was skimming Zed’s blog because I really liked this quote I had found on some other site where I was following some referrals:
*Right now the Rails folks put everything in a Wiki, which is Hawaiian for “can’t find shit.”* – Zed ¹
He had another blog post called Oroborus+Pogo+ROX == A Great Desktop Experience. If I ever go back to working on Linux, I shall give it a try. 😄
Oroborus+Pogo+ROX == A Great Desktop Experience
The guy also has a cool article about programmers and statistics: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All. As a biologist, you are confronted with lots of statistics. I had at least one similar discussion with the intern who “analyzed” our employee satisfaction survey results.
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
A major goal of measurement is to develop a succinct and accurate picture of what’s going on, but if you don’t find out the standard deviation and do at least a couple graphs then you’re screwed. Just give up man. Game over. Game over. – Zed
Haha! :D
More surfing reveals something that might be of interest to some coworkers of mine:
The next time someone is selling you infrastructure for Web Services, or SOA, or ESB, or whatever they’ll call it next, make sure you ask “Why?” After they tell you, make sure you understand, agree, and have the problems they propose to solve. If not, ask again. New framework and infrastructure is extremely expensive in more ways than one: you have to ramp people on it and then deploy, manage, monitor, and support it. Sometimes new infrastructure is unavoidable but when it overlaps a large portion of your existing infrastructure, you should make sure it’s bringing back a significant return. – Ryan Tomayko on lesscode.org ²
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