Blueprint For A Mess - New York Times Magazine, November 2, 2003
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12/02/2003 01:06 AMProbably interesting.
"Blueprint for a Mess"
"Blueprint for a Mess"
11/02/2003 03:13 PMObject Lesson: Disconnected Urbanism |
Metropolis Magazine | November 2003
Object Lesson: Disconnected Urbanism |
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12/02/2003 12:28 AMThe New York Times: Magazine
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12/17/2003 05:02 AMNew York Times Magazine de hoje é sobre cinema .. Times
Magazine year in ideas issue .. The Way We Live Now .. these
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"Blueprint for a Mess: How the Bushies
Bungled Iraq "
"Blueprint for a Mess: How the Bushies
Bungled Iraq "
11/02/2003 03:13 PMNew York Times Magazine on the iPod
New York Times Magazine on the iPod
12/02/2003 01:06 AMRob Walker of the New York Times Magazine has written an extensive
article on the iPod...
The New York Times > Magazine >
Our Ratings, Ourselves
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Our Ratings, Ourselves
04/13/2005 01:13 AMOur Ratings, Ourselves €” How technology is about to radically change
TV-audience monitoring €” and how that will transform advertising and,
possibly, the very nature of television .. how we rate television
programs
now
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06/14/2004 05:47 PMThe New York Times > Magazine >
What the World Needs Now Is DDT
The New York Times > Magazine >
What the World Needs Now Is DDT
04/13/2004 07:30 AMWhat the world needs now is DDT .. Malaria, Africa and DDT .. Apr. 11
..
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives
11/04/2003 08:44 AMmodified a transcript of President Bush's remarks .. scrubbing its
transcripts .. Josh
Marshall
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"New York Times Magazine in January
1946"
"New York Times Magazine in January
1946"
11/03/2003 04:21 AMThe New York Times > Magazine > The War
Inside the Arab Newsroom
The New York Times > Magazine > The War
Inside the Arab Newsroom
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Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail
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Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail
09/26/2004 10:42 AMFear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail .. The NY Times Magazine
article on
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Questions for Ray C. Fair: Bush
Landslide (in Theory)!
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Questions for Ray C. Fair: Bush
Landslide (in Theory)!
08/15/2004 05:22 PMNew York Times today publishes a rather panicky interview .. Deborah
Solomon
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This week’s New York Times
Magazine has a great article on
corporate ethics and social
responsibility
This week’s New York Times
Magazine has a great article on
corporate ethics and social
responsibility
06/09/2004 04:05 PMMichael Lewis on social responsible business practices .. The
Irresponsible
Investor
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Sex Slaves of West 43rd Street - The New
York Times Magazine gets carried away in
its investigation. By Jack Shafer
Sex Slaves of West 43rd Street - The New
York Times Magazine gets carried away in
its investigation. By Jack Shafer
01/29/2004 03:49 AM"Matt Bai, "Wiring the Vast Left-Wing
Conspiracy," The New York Times Magazine
, July 25, 2004 "
"Matt Bai, "Wiring the Vast Left-Wing
Conspiracy," The New York Times Magazine
, July 25, 2004 "
07/26/2004 03:47 PMTalking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: October 26, 2003 - November
01, 2003 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: October 26, 2003 - November
01, 2003 Archives
10/28/2003 11:07 PMThe White Sheet Republicans are At It Again in Kentucky! 10/28 ..
attempts at voter suppression .. more than enough money .. Josh
Marshall reports .. asked for donations .. This is very ugly .. all
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COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
Sunday, November 16, 2003
COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
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11/04/2003 05:19 AMCOMDEX Nov 4 2003 3:59AM ET
Office 2003 Critical Update: November
11, 2003
Office 2003 Critical Update: November
11, 2003
11/05/2003 12:11 PMThe New York Times > New York Region
> G.O.P. Protesters Plan to
Infiltrate Convention as Volunteers
The New York Times > New York Region
> G.O.P. Protesters Plan to
Infiltrate Convention as Volunteers
04/28/2004 02:38 PMG.O.P. Protesters Plan to Infiltrate Convention as Volunteers (Free
NYT Registration -- What Dirtbags These People Are) .. New York Times
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NYT
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Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention
Unrest
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Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention
Unrest
04/13/2005 03:41 AMThe New York Times > Washington
> Security: Tourist Copters in New
York City a Terror Target
The New York Times > Washington
> Security: Tourist Copters in New
York City a Terror Target
08/09/2004 11:53 PMThe New York Times > Washington > Security: Tourist Copters in New
York City a Terror
Target
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McGreevey Describes ‘Intensely
Personal Decision’ in Speech
The New York Times New York Region
McGreevey Describes ‘Intensely
Personal Decision’ in Speech
08/13/2004 01:46 AM1970's Henry Kissinger was a foreign policy wonk today .. my governor
just came out of the
closet
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Campaign 2004 > Vast Anti-Bush Rally
Greets Republicans in New York
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Campaign 2004 > Vast Anti-Bush Rally
Greets Republicans in New York
08/30/2004 03:26 PMwere around half a million
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> About New York: Home From Iraq,
and Without a Home
The New York Times > New York Region
> About New York: Home From Iraq,
and Without a Home
04/25/2004 09:41 AMNicole Goodwin coming home to New York, where she ends up on the
streets with her 1-year-old daughter .. Home From Iraq, and Without a
Home .. homeless in the
Bronx
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Middle East > From the Editors: The
Times and Iraq
The New York Times > International >
Middle East > From the Editors: The
Times and Iraq
05/26/2004 04:36 AMcritical look back ..
introspective
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> Times on the Trail > Mutually
Assured Deconstruction
The New York Times > Washington
> Times on the Trail > Mutually
Assured Deconstruction
09/07/2004 09:25 PM"And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people
like me who can't make up our minds." .. shot himself in the foot ..
Kerryism as well .. this to
say
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November 22, 2003
November 22, 2003
12/02/2003 01:29 AM
Tidbits
My incoming spam is running at over 200 junk emails a day, but SpamBayes is catching
them all, with virtually no false positives. Bayesian filtering,
invented by Paul Graham and available in many open source
implementations, is the best answer yet.
November 06, 2003
November 06, 2003
11/07/2003 12:56 AM
Two questions and a font
Question one, for you telecom mavens out there. If you buy DSL
service in New York from Covad, aren't they just going to get Verizon
to install the actual DSL circuit? If so... why is it cheaper to get
it from Covad?
Yes, we seem to be in the market for a new DSL provider. And I'm
tired of playing the blame game where your DSL provider blames
everything on Verizon and Verizon blames everything on the DSL
provider, so I'd be willing to pay the monopoly tax if it meant when
our DSL went down there was nobody left to blame. If you know whether
Covad uses Verizon, post an answer here.
Question two, for you reliable SQL Server mavens out there. Suppose
I wanted to build a Win2K-based web service using SQL Server to store
the data. But I'm a reliability nut. So obviously I'll use industrial
strength servers with RAID, two power supplies and network cards, etc,
and they'll live in secure
colocation facilities.
To further minimize failure points, I'll have a hot backup. But the
twist is that I figured as long as I'm paying for a hot backup, it
would be more reliable if it was somewhere else, say, on the other
coast.
So here's the plan I'm working on. Server A in New York, with IIS
and SQL Server. Server B in Vancouver, with IIS and SQL Server. Server
A is somehow "writing through" any database changes to server B. I
know I can do this with transaction log shipping; is this
a good way to do it? Is there a better way?
Then if Server A blows up, I simply ask my ISP to route the packets
intended for Server A to Server B. (I assume they can do this if it's
their backbone).
What do you think of this
scheme?
Might I please kindly request in advance that you do
not suggest using Linux instead of Windows 2003. Yes, I concede that
Linux is "more secure," but not when I'm the one pushing the buttons.
Last time a flaw was discovered in Windows, it took me two clicks to
patch it. Last time a flaw was discovered in SSH, it took me four
hours of compiling and messing around to patch it. I apologize but I
don't have the skilz to keep a Linux box secure, so please, let's talk
about how to make this particular configuration reliable, not
about whether Linux is a better OS than Windows. Or, actually, if you
do want to talk about whether Linux is more secure than Windows, do so
here.
And a font
Back in the days when I did Mac development (System 6) the biggest
monitors available for the Mac were maybe 9", and the only way to see
a reasonable amount of code on screen was to use a tiny font. Now that
I have two 18" LCD panels, the only way to see a reasonable amount of
code on screen is to use a tiny font. The world is awash in lovely
TrueType fonts but none of them are monospaced, which is a nuisance
for programming because things which should line up won't.
Fortunately, I have found ProFont, and all
is well again.
November 14, 2003
November 14, 2003
11/14/2003 07:32 PM
Time for the next Book of the Month.
Almost any argument about managing the software development process
inevitably deteriorates into anecdote-ping-pong. “We did wawa
and everyone quit.”
“Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Company X? They wawa
regularly and their stock is up 20%!”
If you have even the slightest bit of common sense, you should ask:
“Where's the data? If I'm going to switch to Intense Programming
I want to see proof that the extra money spent on dog kennels and bird
cages is going to pay for itself in increased programmer self-esteem.
Show me hard data!”
And, of course, we have none.
One set of people will tell you you gotta
have private offices with walls and a door that closes. Another
set of extremos will tell you everyone has to be in a room together,
shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither of them have any hard data whatsoever,
where by “hard data” I mean “data that wouldn't be
laughed out of a sixth-grade science classroom.” The truth is,
you can't honestly compare the productivity of two software teams
unless they are trying to build exactly the same thing under exactly
the same circumstances with the exact same human individuals,
who have been somehow cloned so they don't learn anything the first
time through the experiment.
Tom DeMarco was so frustrated at the inherent impossibility of
providing any kind of hard data that he went so far as to write a novel in which he fantasizes about a bizarre land in
which programmers are so cheap you actually can do
experiments where, say, half the people have offices and half the
people have cubicles.
But we don't have the data. We don't have any data. You can give us
anecdotes left and right about how methodology X worked or didn't
work, but you can't prove that when it worked it wasn't just because
of one really, really good programmer on the team, and you can't prove
that when it failed is wasn't just because the company was in the
process of going bankrupt and everybody was too demoralized to do
anything at all, Aeron chairs notwithstanding.
But don't give up hope. We
do have the collective wisdom of fifty years of building
software to draw from. Or at least, it's somewhere. Your typical
startup with three pals from college may not exactly have the
collective wisdom, so they're going to reinvent things from scratch
that IBM figured out in 1961, or go bankrupt failing to reinvent them.
Too bad, because they could have read Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L.
Glass, the best summary of what the software profession should have
agreed upon by now. Here are just a few examples from the 55 facts and
10 fallacies in the book:
- The most important factor in software work is
not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but
rather the quality of the programmers themselves.
- Adding people to a late project makes it later.
- Reuse-in-the-small (libraries of subroutines) began
nearly 50 years ago and is a well-solved problem.
- Reuse-in-the-large (components) remains a mostly
unsolved problem, even though everyone agrees it is important and
desirable.
You can read the others in the table of
contents on Amazon. One of the best things about the book is that
it has sources for each fact and fallacy, so you can go back and
figure out why we collectively believe that, say, code
inspection is valuable but cannot and should not replace testing. This
is bound to be particularly helpful when you need ammunition for your
arguments with people in suits making absurd demands (“Can we
make a baby in 1 month if we hire 9 mothers?”).
November 03, 2003
November 03, 2003
11/03/2003 02:32 PM
Fog Creek's website has been redone to use our new Sam
Sherwood-designed logo. The cutting edge page design is thanks to
superstar web designer Dave
Shea, famous for the CSS
garden and the eye-popping new Mozilla home page,
with additional programming and graphics by Fog Creek's own Dmitri
Kalmar. It's about 99% standards-compliant (with the exception a
couple of stray FONT tags left over from old content that hasn't been
updated... oh the horror!).
November 07, 2003
November 07, 2003
11/10/2003 11:08 PM
Toronto
group forming. Any others?
November 30, 2003
November 30, 2003
12/02/2003 01:29 AM
I spent the long weekend grinding through the backlog of Joel on
Software translations. There are a bunch of new articles in various
languages including new sections for Esperanto and Greek. All in all
there are 264 translations in progress in 32 languages thanks to 242
volunteers around the world. 177 translations are complete and have
already been posted.
There are a few articles, already translated, which just need copy
editors before I can post them. If you read and write one of these
languages fluently and are willing to help out, I'd really appreciate
it! What's involved is just looking for typos and errors and improving
the translation wherever possible. If I don't find anyone to edit the
articles I will probably just go ahead and post them unedited but it
would be nice to have a second set of eyes improving the quality of
the translations.
Languages I need editors for: Chinese (Trad), Esperanto, Estonian,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Port.), Russian,
Swedish, and Tamil.
A frequently asked question: why bother with these translations?
Surely any real programmer knows English! And my frequently answered
answer: First of all, not every programmer knows English, and if they
do, they may not know it that well, so they may not really enjoy
reading things written in English if they don't have to. Second, even
if the programmers have learned enough English to decipher online
documentation, their pointy-haired bosses from management may not
have.
Another frequent question: why not just use Babelfish or Google
Language Tools or another similar translation tool? Answer: They are
seriously little. You cannot include/understand simply the exit. Er,
what I meant to say was, they are seriously inadequate. The quality of
translations produced by automatic software is so horrible that you
really can't understand the output. Try asking Google to translate http://french.joelonsoftware.c
om from French to English for some real howlers. "Then why does
nobody make planning? Two principal reasons. Firstly, it is really
difficult. Secondly, nobody believes that that is worth the sorrow of
it. Why give so much difficulty to be worked on a planning if it is
known that it will not be correct?"
New York Dog magazine
New York Dog magazine
08/16/2004 06:20 PMi expect to see lia and jarvis in a centerfold shortly
"The New York Times > From the Editors:
The Times and Iraq: A Sample of the
Coverage"
"The New York Times > From the Editors:
The Times and Iraq: A Sample of the
Coverage"
05/29/2004 04:47 PMFt. Lewis Remembers Six Strykers Killed
in Mess Tent Suicide Blast (Los Angeles
Times)
Ft. Lewis Remembers Six Strykers Killed
in Mess Tent Suicide Blast (Los Angeles
Times)
12/30/2004 06:51 AMLos Angeles Times - FT. LEWIS, Wash. — One day last week, Steff
VanKomen opened the door to find the Christmas package her husband had
sent home from Iraq. Half an hour later, she got another knock at the
door — this one to tell her that her husband was dead.
Execs & Accounts for November 3, 2003
Execs & Accounts for November 3, 2003
11/04/2003 05:16 AMInternet News Nov 4 2003 4:29AM ET
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