Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Mobile Venture Beat has a piece where a group of VCs discuss open vs. closed, specifically related to mobile, where I’m currently employed.
I’ve also seen a number of discussions on Eric Raymond’s blog, Armed and Dangerous, about his feelings on the Android vs. iPhone. Being the chief apologist for Open Source, Eric feels that [...]

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Seth Godin wrote today about arrogance.
Better, I think, to make a difference and run the risk of failing sometimes, of being made fun of, and yes, appearing arrogant. It’s far better than the alternative.
If we are to make a difference, we have to take risks, including the risk of sounding arrogant at times.

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The first iPhone application that I’ve been involved in creating is now available on the iTunes AppStore. This is an exciting moment for me and for Point Inside, as we bring the company out of stealth mode and go public with our product.
Point Inside maps indoor spaces. At launch, we have nearly 400 malls around [...]

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Seth Godin has a new post up, Square One is Underrated. In it, he points out that when you discover that you are on the wrong path, speeding up is not the solution. The solution is to go back to the last point that you had the chance to find the correct path to the [...]

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Megan McArdle has a great article showing the moral bankruptcy of the logic that our leaders seem to be using today.
But second of all, just as there is no way to tax a corporation, there is no way to default on a corporation. Whenever you default, you are taking money from some person: [...]

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I’ve been reviewing a unit test plan today. I should really be a simple document. Use this test framework. Write tests before writing code. Execute tests continually to verify good code.
Rinse and repeat until done. All tests will pass and after running a code coverage tool, justify any code not covered with tests.
But that apparently [...]

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Tim Ferris, at his Four Hour Work Week blog, discusses the roller-coaster curve of the entrepreneur, and starts off comparing it to the current economic roller-coaster.
Ever since the media’s Chicken Little response to the tremors in the financial markets, I’ve felt like shouting from the rooftops “now you know how it feels to be an [...]

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Yesterday I finished my assignment at Boeing on the P-8A program. It was a tremendous gig. The people were great, the program is exciting, and I had a great piece of code to work on.
I spent most of the past 11 months working on a java Swing-based tool that the Tactical Datalinks team used to [...]

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37Signals posted on the way Bang and Olufsen does design. They don’t go to the office more than two or three times a month. They design with paper and cardboard in 3D and build it up little by little.
Greatness comes from successfully breaking the rules.

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GameCareerGuide has an article discussing one path to becoming a game designer.
If you’re interested in Game Design as a career, go read it.

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