From David Batstone‘s WAG, one of my favorite newsletters, comes this parable about a fisherman and a VC: (KHE) A venture capitalist was vacationing at the pier of a small coastal village. A couple hours before lunch time, he noticed a small boat with just one fisherman docked nearby. Inside the small boat were [...]
I can’t believe I’m shilling for The Sports Guy again, but there’s a great excerpt from an interview he did with Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the screenwriters for Rounders, on collaborative authoring (emphasis mine): (KGI) Simmons: Let’s talk about the whole “writing as a team” thing. Maybe it’s because I’m an only child, [...]
On the HyperScope mailing list, Jeff Conklin recently asked how we were using Compendium for the project. We’ve been using it for the design phase of the project, walking through scenarios, capturing requirements, and developing specifications. I started the process by developing a template for the project — loosely based on previous projects — and [...]
When I worked at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, I half-jokingly proposed creating baseball cards for programmers. Why should kids be limited to trading Albert Pujols and Eric Gagne cards, when they could trade a 1998 Larry Wall for a 2000 Guido van Rossum? (KF7) I still think it’s a good idea in theory, but in [...]
Thanks to Richard Gabriel for pointing out this historic timestamp on the Hillside Group mailing list. Although this is a once-in-a-lifetime event for us Americans, Gerard Meszaros pointed out that Canadians won’t celebrate this date and time for another 29 days (May 4, 2006). (KER)
