Thursday, November 21, 2002
Joel on Software
"... delays accumulate, while advances do not (for example, if you have finished this week's work on Friday morning, chances are you will waste time on Friday afternoon rather than starting the next week's work. But if you don't make it on time, you'll still leave at 5 o'clock on Friday, accumulating a delay"
Not just programming, dear reader, but any task that requires a high degree of detailed, abstract thought. Technical writing and instructional design, for example. 8:39:33 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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The Cranky User article led me to the Baen Free Library: "Online piracy - while it is definitely illegal and immoral - is, as a practical problem, nothing more than (at most) a nuisance. We're talking brats stealing chewing gum, here, not the Barbary Pirates." 8:42:04 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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