Super Crunchers, by Ian Ayres, is subtitled "Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart." It's all about the use of numerical analysis, regression testing, and randomized assignment to learn more about a variety of topics, from the quality of wine to the quality of medicine -- and how to …
I'll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12" iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I've been building up …
Great article by Kyle Wilson on why software is hard to create:
Talking about a software development schedule more than a year out is like talking about where we go after we die. Everyone has some idea where we'll end up, but those ideas differ wildly, and there's a lack …
One of Dakim's [m]Power devices (located at a client site) wasn't communicating with our servers correctly, and it took five hours and a bunch of people to correctly diagnose the problem.
On the call we had a member of the client's IT staff (at the corporate office), a …
I first heard about the Unicomp reincarnations of the original IBM "clicky" keyboard on Mark Pilgrim's sadly defunct site. I've long been a fan of IBM keyboards -- I used to pick them up at thrift stores. If you bought three you could usually end up with two working keyboards. But …
People who have known me for a while are slightly puzzled. Why am I semi-consistently using my middle name now, when I never did before? Sudden attack of pretentiousness? Actually, no. When you Google for "John Schofield," I'm WAY down on the list -- not even on the first page. (Some …
Say you've got a Subversion source code tree checked out, and for whatever reason you want to remove all Subversion directories inside that tree. (The thing that makes a Subversion tree a Subversion tree is the presence of a ".svn" folder in every folder of the tree. If you had …
OK, that headline is a little ridiculous. But for a number of reasons, I ended up creating a lot of accounts lately -- so here's some pointers to other places you can find me on the web:
Things I use every day: (Just about)
I've done several kinds of travel -- primarily the personal type where you travel for months out of a backpack, and traveling to a specific place for a time period for business -- either training or to fix a problem at a client.
This, however, is a first for me -- traveling for …