Dave Winer : it would depend on my users being dumb, and as I said earlier, my users are anything but. They’re the smartest people on the planet and I want to keep it that way. And I think anyone who makes software for dumb people in the end gets what they deserve. 🙂
Tag Archives: sdi philosophy
Quick SFW Generator
Smart Disorganized Individual philosophy is about doing things piecemeal; engaging in small opportunistic actions as and when the inspiration strikes. Today was just such a quick burst with the Smallest Federated Wiki. I love SFW a lot, but it’s a bit of a pain to bring a page or large chunk of writing from elsewhere …
Horizontal Applications And Popular Data Structures
Joel Spolsky : “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.”
Work is never fun if you do it for other people. But why? I’d guess it’s not simply that someone else is asking you for it. It’s that the other person is always setting some constraints, defining the boundaries of what the thing should be, that don’t entirely line up with your own. And then …
Lloyd Davis’s Social Media Empire, driven from a N95.
Richard Gabriel is thinking and speaking about Ultra-large Scale, Resilient, Systems. Essential reading.
My post yesterday on Composing, about Geeks, Suits and Abstraction is relevant to SDI philosophy too. Executive Summary : Geeks, by definition, have to be good at shifting their thinking between different levels of abstraction; Suits, by temperament, believe in the rigid separation of levels into the corporate hierarchy and would love for technology to …
Dave Winer : I don’t like it — because it betrays a not-useful point of view. I am not part of a crowd, I am an individual … When you mash us all together you miss the point. Update : continues Of course, what Winer is ignoring is that companies are thinking of the crowd …
Vagmi’s Open Letter to Programeter (nice one)
I think this is probably the most mind-blowingly stupid and bad thing I’ve seen for a while. There is no automated metric on earth that can get even a vague approximation of the value of a piece of programming. My colleague, yesterday, solved a fiendish long-troubling bug, by removing one character of faulty indentation from …