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Good Advice

By ⋅ December 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

This is an excerpt from Paul Graham’s Rarely-Asked Questions page: How can I avoid turning into a pointy-haired boss? The pointy-haired boss is a manager who doesn’t program. So the surest way to avoid becoming him is to stay a programmer. What tempts programmers to become managers are companies with old-fashioned corporate structure, where the [...]

About.me

By ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

About.me is a neat little site I stumbled across that allows you to create a custom splash/profile page. The site is in private beta at the moment but allows you to reserve a url. Sites like these are great for personal branding, especially if you’re able to use your own registered domains to host/point to [...]

Why Even Bernanke Sees Trouble Ahead – Yahoo! Finance

By ⋅ April 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Much has been written about strategic mortgage defaults lately. Bank of American (NYSE: BAC – News) is fielding more than 125,000 calls a day from people seeking mortgage help. Hundreds of thousands haven’t made a mortgage payment in more than a year. via Why Even Bernanke Sees Trouble Ahead – Yahoo! Finance.

Strategic Foreclosures

By ⋅ September 18, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Recently a story was aired on the news about the housing market in Patterson, CA and the dramatic decrease in median home values due to a high rate of strategic foreclosures. Also known as buy and bail, strategic foreclosures is the act of borrowers who have negative home equity in their homes – typically in [...]

Programming in Scala

By ⋅ July 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m currently reading Programming in Scala. There’s been a lot of buzz lately about functional programming and I thought I’d spend some time with one of these functional languages. I  originally started looking at Erlang due to the great things I’ve read about how well Erlang scales and its failover capabilities. Then I came across [...]

Top Five Causes of Poor Software Quality

By ⋅ July 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Studies have shown that half of the time spent modifying existing software is expended trying to figure out what is going on in the code. via Top Five Causes of Poor Software Quality.

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