Archive for September, 2006

Perforce: Why do you make simple things hard?

In Perforce: Just A Faster CVS? Simon Harris says:

So, it’s 7am-ish and I’ve had 6 or so hours of sleep to ruminate on this but yup, from a developers perspective, I still think Perforce sucks. I like to work offline, a lot, on planes, trains and in taxi-cabs; I like [...]

Donald Knuth… quote? Another xkcd.com comic.

Why Top Employees Quit

To do this, we reviewed notes from exit interviews, cross referenced annual reviews and ultimately came up with 178 voluntary terminations from people that would have been considered in the top 20%. To try and keep focused on macro issues, we consolidated the responses and placed them into categories: [...]

Strongtalk: Smalltalk with a need for speed.

What Is Strongtalk? Strongtalk is a major re-thinking of the Smalltalk-80 programming language and system. While retaining the basic Smalltalk syntax and semantics, it contains a number of significant advances, including: Performance Type System The Strongtalk system was developed in secret [...]

Confessional: I thought it was Spanish.

I’ve been getting emails that look like this:

From: especials@SeaTacPark.com Subject: Especial!

For months now I thought I was getting emails in Spanish because of my last name. Turns out it’s really just “email” + “specials”.

7:23AM, press return.