Archive for August, 2011

Agile Painting

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I really like to paint. I started back in college, on a whim. One fine day, I bought some oil paints, brushes, and a canvas, and started painting.

Production Bugs: Whose responsibility are they?

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Bug fixing is rarely fun. This is especially true for bugs you didn’t create.

Fun With Financial Crashes

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What a crazy week it was on the stock exchanges. Huge swings up and down, see-sawing back and forth, massive losses followed by massive gains, unbridled despair followed by unbridled joy, and so on and so forth.

CoffeeScript

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JavaScript is a great language with a few bad parts. For all its expressiveness and power, JavaScript can at times be awkward, visually noisy, and downright painful. And although none of these problems are fatal, it sure would be nice if there was a way not to deal with them.

Your Standards are Poor: S&P, please stop trying

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On Friday, the ratings agency Standards and Poor’s downgraded US debt to AA+. So far, it is the only ratings agency to do so. Right afterwords, it came to light that S&P made a mathematical mistake in calculating future deficits. S&P was off in its projections by about 2 trillion dollars.

PowerPointer: How to make bubbles

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People love to bash PowerPoint. Everything from misrepresenting cancer statistics to space shuttle disasters is blamed on PowerPoint. The phrase “PowerPoint is evil” gets 10 million results on Google. Yep, people hate PowerPoint.