"OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched."

Solve problems!

One of the paradoxes of software engineering is that people with bad ideas and low productivity often think of themselves as supremely capable.

F1 car prototyping circa 1976

I always wondered – "why Baba Frauddev?".

At the risk of heresy, let me express my profound unease at the crescendo of euphoria surrounding the ‘Anna Hazare + Jan Lokpal Bill’ phenomenon as it has unfolded on Jantar Mantar in New Delhi and across several hysterical TV stations over the last few days.

Bye bye "open" android

I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer will ever have to write a binary search after they are hired.

This may not be intended to be a factual clip.

By the end of the meeting I had persuaded the group to fire the worst bartender that any of us had ever seen…and ask him if he would consider being our leader.

"But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules controlled the technology they could use with their phones. "