Comment Being A Programmer (Score 1) 353
Is the new staying at Holiday Inn Express.
Is the new staying at Holiday Inn Express.
When you have enough resolution to zoom in and accurately reconstruct Kim Kardashian's retina and fingerprints.
You'll have trouble getting a consensus as to an agreed-upon operational definition of "Productivity".
Vernor Vinge wrote an entertaining book based around this technology.
Salespeople
- To be good in sales, you have to be able to lie to yourself about the quality of a product, because the customer will not be able to believe it's a good product unless you believe it's a good product.
- To be good in sales, you have to be able to convince yourself that a customer has a need for something that they in actuality have no need for.
- To be good in sales, you have to have the belief that "the product is awesome because I am awesome."
- To be good in sales, you have to do anything you can to get a sale
- A good sales person can sell sand to arabs and ice to eskimos.
Product Managers
- To be a good product manager, you cannot lie to yourself that a product is superior.
- To be a good product manager, you have to design a product that people will really want and really need.
- To be a good product manager, you have to be able to say "I am only decent if the product is decent".
- To be a good product manager, you have to have to be willing to push back against a change that will harm the long-term usability or usefulness of a product for everyone else at the cost of getting a short term sale for one specific customer.
- To be a good product manager, you have to make sure your company won't be selling sand to arabs or ice to eskimos, but rather selling ice to arabs to cool their drinks and sand to eskimos to give their cars traction.
With the rare exception of someone like Steve Jobs who's good at both roles, promoting an outstanding salesperson to do product management is like hiring a convicted arsonist to run your fire department. .
Because you can't Instagram your rampage with a mere cash register.
For the articles.
It would be 1995 and I would be reading this article on Usenet.
Fry something.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
Why bother with the time, expense, and hard work of amateur science when you can just outsource it to people who make stuff up?
If Google Wave was featured in a movie, it would be directed by John Romero and people would be trying to kill it with a shotgun.
If would forget the mistakes I made in choosing them as a partner, learn nothing from those mistakes, and end up with someone just as horrible as the last person.
Found alive having a life. More news at a 11.
that gets you stranded in a bad neighborhood.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.