Why, ultimately, I quit graduate school:

"But programming is not about the syntax. Programming is not about „writing code“. The essence of programming is in understanding the world and being able to transform such understanding into a set of descriptions, rules and procedures. When you're facing a task such as „write a customer relationship management (CRM) system“, your problems aren't „which sort of sorting algorithm is faster“ or „how to query a database“. Your problem isn't „how to structure the database“ either, actually. Your problems are questions like „What is an invoice in real word?“ and „How this particular customer understands the ‚invoice‘ concept?“. Programming is about mapping the relationships of dirty and complicated real world into artificial, frictionless world of computer code."

"Producers are assholes… They know all the tricks of the trade but they don't know the trade itself… They don't believe in anything" James Woods

"Collaboration, that's the word producers use. That means, don't forget to kiss ass from beginning to end." Sam Shepard

ninja Lincoln

"Everybody knows that agile provides some great ideas if you want to add value to software delivery projects. But what I haven’t seen is a fundamental look at the effects of agile on our health, on our sanity, and the safety of our environment…"

"What Dave Winer says here about the news applies as well to scientific publishing. The arguments about open access and about review quality are but a sideline to a much more fundamental one: how to create sustainable mechanisms that will increasingly open up the process of writing up new ideas, reviewing them, and publicly building a consensus for or against their scientific soundness and importance."

"The trade associations argue instead that “alternative means for achieving the desired use should first be pursued including seeking permission from the rights holder.” This is wrong — a non-infringing use is one where prior authorization from the rights holder is not necessary. Reminder: fair use is an unauthorized use. If you are asking permission, then you are not exercising your lawful exception."

"Deep Capture is a work of investigative journalism examining the growing threat to our financial system posed by illegal naked short selling, stock manipulation, and the destruction of public companies."

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