David Spade will forever have a special place in my heart for what he did in the movie Tommy Boy. I’m not sure if it was his creation, but in that movie, Spade delivered a line that added one of my favorite words to the english language:
My fellow nerds and I will retire to …Read More
Recently, Auston of the Dashboard Leadlog startup in Florida posted a somewhat snarky blog post about one of the responses to a job opening at their company. I more or less said the same things that appeared on Hacker News. Eventually my comment may show up, but it’s buried at #20, so I …Read More
It’s a bit off-topic for this blog, but it’s important.
Please head over to Obama’s website and let the new administration know what you expect from your government.
This is the letter I just sent.
Mr. President Elect Barack Obama,
We spend far too much money on policing the world with a network of bases. Our military empire …Read More
When I started at Yahoo on the Games team, there was a custom that resonated deeply with me, which was started by Dean Yu.
All “work from home” emails or “out of office” emails had to be sent in the form of a haiku. This rule was not enforced, but it’s the kind of thing …Read More
I’ve been tagged by fellow yahoo and javascript hacker extraordinaire Matt Hackett.
How old were you when you first started programming?
I guess I was about 7 or so when I first typed BASIC commands into my dad’s DOS computer. Back then, buying a “computer game” meant you bought a book and typed it up. …Read More
When I was at GoogleIO, I received an email from Brent Griffith, one of the guys on the team behind Redux.com. Redux was mentioned recently on Hacker News, and rather than rewrite much of this commentary, I figured it would be more interesting to just post the conversation here.
Slightly edited to remove non-public and …Read More