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I came across this video by Armando Fox with his views of what went wrong with the Obamacare website, from a deep technical perspective. It’s part of a University of California at Berkley course on SAAS Software Engineering. It’s very very good! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5WFz6Gi28&w=854&h=480]
This was written in 2014: "I’ve been digging pretty deep into the Software Engineering literature to prepare a new course I am developing and came across this. It’s always fun to have a top-10 list even in the driest of topics, so here is Barry Boehm’s “Timeless Principles (+) and Aging Practices (...
Read more →I am reading a really cool book right now: Review & Outlook: Loose Lips on Syria – WSJ.com: > It’s always possible that all of this leaking about when, how and for how long the U.S. will attack Syria is an elaborate head-fake, like Patton’s ghost army on the eve of D-Day, poised for the assault on Calais. But based on this Administration’s past behavior, such as the leaked bin Laden raid details, chances are most of this really is the war plan.
Interesting article: The media loves the “wrong speed” theory, but a lightning strike and electrical failure are more likely culprits. Technorati Tags: airplane, weather, airbus
Check out this really interesting article plus lovely animations. I have to go find out how it actually implements the animations. Even though the examples are in Python, what is actually embedded into the page? We shall see! ## Visualizing Alghorithms
I bet you didn’t know there was a forest like this in Woburn! 
Really good article, albeit quite geeky, about concurrency in general, and using Go-like primitives in Ruby.
In moving my blog to Squarespace 6 I’ve had a lot of contact with their support service. They are ‘just ok’. Yes, they have the usual boilerplate, “so glad you contacted us” and “i think I understand why this is important to you.” Ok, ok. Enough cut and paste. The problem is that they are probably ...
Read more →Based on my own experience, some of my favorite books and blog posts, and advice from friends, I’ve come up with this. What do you think? What should I add? Please comment! #### Personal Effectiveness Rules of Thumb - When you have your best idea ever, always remember that the idea is just 1%...
Read more →I’ve been using mint.com for years now but every month I hate it a little bit more. It’s too big, too slow, and too buggy. But it’s solving a problem that I need solved which is a comprehensive cloud based personal finance tool that covers banking, investments, credit cards, reporting and analysis. ...
Read more →I have been noticing more and more serialized tweets. In other words, someone tweets several times in a row because what they have to say will not fit into 140 characters. They number them and fire them off one after the other. That way you, the reader, can reassemble them in your head. Of cours...
Read more →Yes, I have about $100 in Bitcoin and today was a bad day. It droppped from around $630 to around $580. Am I a speculator? I guess, but my excuse is that I’m very interested in the underlying technology and there’s nothing like having some to getting a feel for the space. Here’s a great article abou...
Read more →Other than the headline, which is amusing, I am not sure about the methodology or significance of this study in US News (do they still exist?). And it seems that many professions, e.g. College Professor, don’t even get mentioned...
Read more →Jonathan Harris is the creator of several really interesting web sites that in very creative ways combine art with computing. From his home page one might conclude that he’s a bit > “This is the website of Jonathan Harris. I make projects that explore the relationship ...
Read more →It’s obvious if you think about it, but this article drives some points home. If you use some kind of web service to read, listen, watch, charge, use, borrow or share stuff, that company not only knows what you’ve (read, listened to, etc.) They also know much more specifically how you did so: Did yo...
Read more →How to Get a Job at Google – NYTimes.com: > Don’t get him wrong, Bock begins, “Good grades certainly don’t hurt.” Many jobs at Google require math, computing and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.
I just saw Blue Jasmine, the latest Woody Allen movie. It is excellent and I recommend it. I also happened to read [Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times](http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollecti...
Read more →This article: The Only Interview Question That Matters” makes a pretty good case for this being the most important single interview question: > What single project or task would you consider your most significant accomplishment in your career to date?
After a glorious run of almost 10 years, regretfully, I’ve decided to decomission BlogBridge. My longtime freinds and blog...
I admit I am always a little bit offended when I hear that a friend of mine (François?) chooses Aruba as a vacation destination. And it happens pretty regularly. Oh I always say that the two islands are very similar, but the truth is that I’ve spent very little time in Aruba, so… Anyway, for those o...
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