Mental notes to myself

I was reviewing the formula 4C + V + P = Web 3.0

This is what I think:
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I’ve just read a post about the goatse man can cause you get a jail time in the US for posting it on a board or site with a fake title. I’ll not link here the infamous photo here sorry

Here is the related US code:
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Reading this interview is a really good start to monday morning.
The questiongs are directed to the well known and not so well known programmers.

Linus Torvalds - The Linux kernel author
Dave Thomas - Author of the Pragmmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.
David Heinemeier Hansson - Author of the Rails Framework - the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.
Steve Yegge - Proably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called „Wyvern”.
Peter Norvig - Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.
Guido Van Rossum - The Python language creator
James Gosling - The Java language creator
Tim Bray - One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

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Joshua Schachter from del.icio.us has really nice notes for the ones that are looking for it.

These are the things to look out for when building a large application on web. Most of them I agree, some of them I don’t. This list also should keep in mind that, real world problems are not that perfect. I marked the ones that I strongly agree with an asterix (*).
I also filtered out the things are specific to del.icio.us from the original text.

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43 folders has a great article on writing an email

I love these hints!!!
Some of are :

• That won’t scale.
• That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
• There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
• If we go with that idea, we’re going to have Don Marti camped out in the front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters. (this gave me a good laugh)
• No, that would break object encapsulation.
• I don’t think that’s altogether clear. Please write it up in UML for me.

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The Top 10 worst ways to decide:

10.Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO.
9. Fix every bug (never ship).
8. Don’t fix any bugs (ship today!).
7. Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO’s spouse/daughter/pet hamster.
6. Require approval for every decision from the most annoying and least intelligent person in your organization (possibly redundant with No. 10).
5. Start on a bug at random, and when you’re halfway finished, switch to another. Repeat.
4. Play bug hot potato. Don’t fix bugs, just keep assigning yours to someone else.
3. Put bugs in alphabetical order and fix them from A to Z, skipping vowels. (Hint: if you relabel bugs appropriately, this is equivalent to No. 8.)
2.Create a complex parliamentary system of delegates elected by two-thirds majority to draft a charter of bylaws and rules of order for the formation of three bilateral subcommittees empowered to moderate future strategic defect management discourse.
1.Spend all available time debating whether your current process appears on this list.

a nice article is available on OnLamp.