“ Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch claims that the company’s ubiquitous Flash plug-in doesn’t ship with any known crash bugs. One can only assume that he has never used the software.
FiatDev Tumble Log
Mar 09
Jul 02
Master’s degree preferred
I recently found this in a job ad:
This position will be responsible for customizing xml front-end templates
Sounds like fun. After lines of “must have X plus years in Y technology” the employer states:
Candidates will possess a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, with a Master’s Degree preferred.
Seriously? I am curious what field is “related” to editing XML templates.
Mar 04
“ And many of us are hoping that all those in power fail, because those in power have a grating habit of being annoyingly self-righteous, hopelessly corrupt, resolutely incompetent and completely apathetic about the freedoms that they have sworn to protect.
Feb 12
“ But why is the Macalope thrilled by this news? He is thrilled because a Zune phone must, by the comic laws that govern our universe, be simply hysterical.
Dec 21
“ No one likes the transmission of power between generations—not the left or the right. But the market forces favored by the right turn out to be a better way of preventing it than the credentials the left are forced to fall back on.
Nov 14
Forwarded to me by a friend:
In wine
There is wisdom;
In beer
There is freedom;
In water
There is bacteria.
“ Some of us learn by doing, while others learn by following a strict regimen of carefully-planned activities that build skills systematically from the ground up. While the latter probably spent time at school using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on an Apple IIGS, the former spent the same time dying of dysentery behind the teacher’s back.
Oct 13
“ Yet it was Mr. Sarkozy, speaking before Congress last November, who offered the most profound assessment of our nation’s gift to the world. “What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind,” he said. “America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who — with their hands, their intelligence and their heart — built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you’ll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.’
Jul 10
“ Beer is a health food. And you do not need to buy it from those wan, unhealthy-looking people who, peering disapprovingly at you through rimless Trotsky-style spectacles, seem to run all the health food stores.
Mar 24
“ The user manual is a list of software design mistakes.
Mar 19
“ Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) it’s completely impossible; (2) it’s possible but it’s not worth doing; (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Mar 10
“ There are the languages everyone complains about, and there are the languages no one uses.
Mar 05
“ The fundamental lesson is that property rights are not—and never have been—created by Congressional fiat. Property rights emerge spontaneously from the social fabric of a community.
Feb 29
“ [I]…said that I don’t need an IDE, he got mad and called me a name. It wasn’t even a particularly imaginative name, so perhaps he could get his IDE to automatically rename that name for him to turn it into a better insult.
“ The passion is impressive but the clarity, not so much.
