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Badass programmers

I strongly recommend everyone (especially non-techies) read the discussion “Who are/were some of the most badass computer programmers?” at Quora. It’s too easy for non-programmers – even for programmers – to forget that all software, at its foundation, is written by human…

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Progress

Update, late evening, 2014-01-29: This post went pretty insane on Google Plus today. As of this writing, 26 people have reshared it, and there are 132 likes of, and 368 comments on, my direct post, with hundreds more on the reshares. The…

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Decisions, decisions!

I was in high school when the Jack in the Box fast food chain introduced breakfast sandwiches: egg, cheese, and meat on a croissant roll. I was an ovo-lacto vegetarian, so, ordering at the drive-through with my father, we ask for “A…

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