Programming languages + Petty battles

Arguing about programming languages feels to me at times like arguing about human languages. In many circumstances you need to choose one that is required and move beyond any idiosyncratic silliness that arises when it’s not “your favourite language.”

Believe in your work.

One big thing I’ve realized as my life has shifted so dramatically in the last few weeks is that you must believe in what you are doing. You need to believe in your work.

Now, there are two ways to approach this. One is sane, it has respect for family, friends…

Pretty amazing news for immix.

I just got immix functioning properly on an i5/OS system… well, almost.

Last piece is getting MongoDB installed on there.

Once I get that in place, it will be high-fives all around and I’ll make the requisite SAVF version of…

Business is product.

Business is product.

What does that mean though? First and foremost, it means that business is not ideas because ideas without action is not product. Ideas alone are simple mental masturbation and until they are written down or acted upon they have no physical form…

Science Haikus

Schrodinger’s “dead” cat
To itself it is alive
to us it is both.

Quantum Observation
Destroys the state it is in
Makes it classical

Honestly… I wouldn’t want to be pope either

Honestly, I wouldn’t want to be pope. That would be a way too stressful and frustrating job.

Running a nation while also trying to be the spiritual guidance to one of the largest religious groups of people in the world. All…

Hiking down that mountain

One of the most interesting things I’ve done in my life was scale Mount Fuji during my honeymoon. I didn’t find the way up, in the dark, with hundreds of other people to be that painful, and the satisfaction of seeing the sunrise from the top was definitely something to be…

Just a little unintended give

I’ve learned over the past 5 years, business is a funny thing. It’s sort of like piloting a boat without any real certainty of where the final port will end up being. You aim for ports that you know of; either from journeys others have taken, or from rumours of lands…