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Dumb Code Good, Smart Code Bad
I owe the idea for my Orwellian title to a well known engineer Robert W. Lucky who came into my life through a ritual of cracking open a brand new and shiny IEEE Spectrum magazine and immediately...
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Don’t Get Attached To Your Code
Many years ago when I moved to Canada, my father-in-law came to visit. He was showing interest in what I did for living and I tried to explain to the best of my abilities. I failed miserably, leaving...
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Plan for the Delivery Aftershocks
My home country is not by itself an earthquake-prone region but we did get jolted ever once in a while with an echo of a truly damaging quake in the neighborhood. People who experienced earthquakes...
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The 12 Amp Limit
Sometimes movies I watch leave a lasting impression for completely unexpected reasons. Case in point – 1995 hit “Apollo 13″. The movie offered plenty of fodder for people who like to play Six Degrees...
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Lean Startup Inc.
Y2K was a banner year for behavioral scientists. In the years leading up to the Internet bubble bust, most investors reported on their profiles that their risk tolerance was ‘high’. At that time, they...
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Micro-Services – Fad, FUD, Fo, Fum
The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel, 1562 But band leader Johnny Rotten didn’t sell out in the way that you’re thinking. He didn’t start as a rebellious kid and tone it down so he could cash in. No,...
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For Once, Being Reactive is Good
5 Gum – React Apple said Monday that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on the first day of its launch, ushering a new era of people buying things in order to find out what they are. SNL Weekend Update,...
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Oy With the Gamification Already!
Lady Katrana Prestor ~ Human Onyxia, World of Warcraft, 2014, Stephan Shubert via Wikimedia Commons “Hi, everybody. My name is Dejan and, … well…, I don’t play games (gasp). There, I’ve said it. This...
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The Art of Who Does What
Jacob Duck, Dividing the Spoils, 1635, Wikimedia Commons Job posting: If you like my blog and would like to work on the stuff I write about, come and join my Toronto team. Novelist Erich Maria Remarque...
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With React, I Don’t Need to Be a Ninja Rock Star Unicorn
Followers of my blog may remember my microservice period. There was a time I could not shut up about them. Now, several blogs and not a peep. Am I over microservices? Not by a long stretch. For us,...
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