Something Confusing about "Hard": It's tempting to think that if it's hard, then it's valuable. Most valuable things are hard. Most hard things are completely useless -- (picture of someone smashing their head through concrete blocks kung-fu style). Hard DOES NOT EQUATE TO BEING valuable. Remember Friendster back in the day? You'd sign in, invite friends, have 25 friends, go to their profile, and then it'd show how you were connected to each one. That's an impressive [some geeky CS jargon] Cone traversal of a tree - 100 million string comparisons per page -- it won't scale. Used to take a minute per page to load, and Friendster died a painful death. MySpace -- not interested in solving problems They use the shortcut of "Miss Fitzpatrick is in your extended network" (i.e. even when you're not even signed up for MySpace) They didn't solve the hard problem. But they make the more relevant assumption that you want to be connected to hot women. [LOL] Shows Alexa graph showing that in early 2005 Myspace took off, and quickly bypassed Friendster and never looked back. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns
C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown
Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein