Stupid Questions
This one comes courtesy of Andrew Sorkin of the New York Times: Do we really have to foot the bill for those bonuses at the American International Group? Fittingly, he provides a stupid answer as well: So here is a...
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Integrating NaturalDocs With SyntaxHighlighter (For The Win!)
In working on some SDK-style developer documentation for FirstPoint, it occurred to me that we needed a way to create some all encompasing documentation which covered not only our code base, but also our markup, our JavaScript controls, CSS, and...
The Follies of C# 4.0
Nikhil Kothari has been blogging furiously about Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0. One of his posts covering the dynamic programming features in C# 4.0 raised some interesting discussion in the comments. Some like Francois Ward: I heavily dislike this....
Why We’re Nearly FUBAR’d
The financial ignorance of the Average American is so widespread, that you — yes you: sitting in your cubicle, making close to six figures at a stable white collar job — you are probably sitting next to someone who’s financially...
More Quotes From the Basketball World
Steve Aschburner’s article on Mike Miller’s surprising drop in productivity contains a nice gem from Don Nelson: “My first years with Nash, he wanted to be John Stockton,” Nelson said. “He wanted to get 10 points and 15 assists. I...
Stonecutting And Product Development
From an SI article on the success of the San Antonio Spurs, a quote from Jacob Riis which coach Greg Popovich uses to help his players gain perspective: “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away...