Amazing, a Nobel Prize in Engineering!. Strange times indeed.
Please, please, please remember to install some fire suppression!
Thank you, Larry!
Federico Tomassetti is also good. Check out his blog: https://tomassetti.me/blog/
We all see the writer in you, wanting to get out! It's nice to be able to convey your feelings to your audience through writing, but great writers go further. The world needs great writers, because they are travel…
The "creative" part is all decisions to be made before coding: architecture, design, modularization, algorithms, APIs, etc. If I am in charge of those decisions, I can use Perl to build a prototype, to validate the…
To know more about creators and their tools, I recommend: - "Programming is (should be) fun!", by Gerald Jay Sussman. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww - "On Writing", by Stephen King. Just the chapter "Toolbox".
For tips, commentary and insight about visiting Madrid, and the rest of Spain, this Youtube channel [0] is a gold mine. James and Yoly really enjoy living here in Madrid, and they explain the good and the bad of our…
This Asianometry video [0] explains why it is so difficult to develop and market new planes. tl;dr The main obstacles are supply chain inefficiencies and that no one buys planes that aren't cost-effective. [0] Japan's…
I am glad I was able to help you. If you like "The Secrets of Consulting", the next one for you should be "Exploring requirements: quality before design", by Gause & Weinberg. What an eye opener it was for me!
Quite difficult to be like you. In any case, much obliged to you, sir!
For freelancers who want to improve (it was my case years ago), the best book is "The Secrets of Consulting", by Gerald Weinberg. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566213.The_Secrets_of_Co...
We can learn from failures if we really want. For example, see https://www.failory.com
I meant what was shown in this movie [0]. In a nutshell, the ability to remain calm when the unexpected happens, to try to solve the problem, or at least to not make it worse. [0]…
Exactly this. Either they have the right stuff, or they don't.
Just one of dozens of amazing passages in this book (page 48): > "... its density was a little better than that of the other acid, and it was magnificently hypergolic with many fuels. (I used to take advantage of this…
You noticed the conceptual integrity of the systems, as described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. From Chapter 4: > "I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system…
There are more anecdotes about Dijkstra in this collection of testimonials written by his friends, colleagues, and students: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03392. These are some of my favorites: From Tony Hoare: They…
That parameterization exists, of course, but are you ready to consider the possibility that it might be unknowable?
I am glad you found it useful!
For me, simplicity and reduction of resistance [0] were the most effective improvements. Mark is always kind enough to explain the psychological underpinnings of productivity, or its absence. [0]…
I got this book [0] by Mark Forster [1], tried the techniques and found out what works for me. It is a gold mine. The author describes in his blog [2] many more of his ideas and experiments about productivity. [0]…
I would say yes. They try hard to make cooks laugh. This is one of their recipes: APOCALYPSE RAMEN This is basically like regular ramen soup but with three critical differences: - It is intensely chaotic, which is to…
Pirsig's book is not really about engineering, but about how we engineers relate to the world. In engineering school I was taught to see the world in a special and unique way, to be able to solve engineering problems as…
> You tell them they are special, and definitely not like animals, and you hold them to a higher standard. And the important part comes right after this. What happens when you hold them to a higher standard? People then…
Amazing, a Nobel Prize in Engineering!. Strange times indeed.
Please, please, please remember to install some fire suppression!
Thank you, Larry!
Federico Tomassetti is also good. Check out his blog: https://tomassetti.me/blog/
We all see the writer in you, wanting to get out! It's nice to be able to convey your feelings to your audience through writing, but great writers go further. The world needs great writers, because they are travel…
The "creative" part is all decisions to be made before coding: architecture, design, modularization, algorithms, APIs, etc. If I am in charge of those decisions, I can use Perl to build a prototype, to validate the…
To know more about creators and their tools, I recommend: - "Programming is (should be) fun!", by Gerald Jay Sussman. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww - "On Writing", by Stephen King. Just the chapter "Toolbox".
For tips, commentary and insight about visiting Madrid, and the rest of Spain, this Youtube channel [0] is a gold mine. James and Yoly really enjoy living here in Madrid, and they explain the good and the bad of our…
This Asianometry video [0] explains why it is so difficult to develop and market new planes. tl;dr The main obstacles are supply chain inefficiencies and that no one buys planes that aren't cost-effective. [0] Japan's…
I am glad I was able to help you. If you like "The Secrets of Consulting", the next one for you should be "Exploring requirements: quality before design", by Gause & Weinberg. What an eye opener it was for me!
Quite difficult to be like you. In any case, much obliged to you, sir!
For freelancers who want to improve (it was my case years ago), the best book is "The Secrets of Consulting", by Gerald Weinberg. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566213.The_Secrets_of_Co...
We can learn from failures if we really want. For example, see https://www.failory.com
I meant what was shown in this movie [0]. In a nutshell, the ability to remain calm when the unexpected happens, to try to solve the problem, or at least to not make it worse. [0]…
Exactly this. Either they have the right stuff, or they don't.
Just one of dozens of amazing passages in this book (page 48): > "... its density was a little better than that of the other acid, and it was magnificently hypergolic with many fuels. (I used to take advantage of this…
You noticed the conceptual integrity of the systems, as described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. From Chapter 4: > "I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system…
There are more anecdotes about Dijkstra in this collection of testimonials written by his friends, colleagues, and students: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03392. These are some of my favorites: From Tony Hoare: They…
That parameterization exists, of course, but are you ready to consider the possibility that it might be unknowable?
I am glad you found it useful!
For me, simplicity and reduction of resistance [0] were the most effective improvements. Mark is always kind enough to explain the psychological underpinnings of productivity, or its absence. [0]…
I got this book [0] by Mark Forster [1], tried the techniques and found out what works for me. It is a gold mine. The author describes in his blog [2] many more of his ideas and experiments about productivity. [0]…
I would say yes. They try hard to make cooks laugh. This is one of their recipes: APOCALYPSE RAMEN This is basically like regular ramen soup but with three critical differences: - It is intensely chaotic, which is to…
Pirsig's book is not really about engineering, but about how we engineers relate to the world. In engineering school I was taught to see the world in a special and unique way, to be able to solve engineering problems as…
> You tell them they are special, and definitely not like animals, and you hold them to a higher standard. And the important part comes right after this. What happens when you hold them to a higher standard? People then…