learned the other day

Fear of Expectations

learnedtheotherday — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:19:26 +0000

I have this fear of not being able to meet people’s expectations. Often I can only overcome it when people show that that it’s okay when expectations are not met. And then I might even be able to accomplish more than they expected in the first place. Which is funny because it makes that fear so completely useless.

Borromean Rings

learnedtheotherday — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:22:52 +0000

These are cool. No two rings are interlocked but all three are. Removing one makes the others fall apart as well. Still trying to figure out whether three human hands can form rings to try this out

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BorromeanRingRemoval/

Only things that are measured ever get improved

learnedtheotherday — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:42:24 +0000

from http://highscalability.com/robert-scobles-rules-successfully-scaling-startups

The Return of Tony Almeida

learnedtheotherday — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:46:03 +0000

When the return of Tony Almeida is the highlight of a day then that wasn’t a good day. If it is the only thing you talk about, then there probably aint much to talk about anymore.

Have to insist more

learnedtheotherday — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:59:11 +0000

When dealing with others I have to insist more on policies and rules I support. Failing to do so will just worsen the situation.

Good Names

learnedtheotherday — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:49:43 +0000

The opposite of a good name sounds (at least a bit) unsatisfactory:

The Pragmatic Programmer – who wants to be unpragmatic?

Found: Test Driven Development, Kent Beck

Template Method

learnedtheotherday — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:44:35 +0000

pattern. an abstract method in a superclass just calling methods implemented in subclasses, so that call order always remains the same

runTest(){


  setUp();
  run();
  tearDown();

}