The Fog of War
Mar 21, 2015
I enjoyed reading @jessitron’s blog post Estimates and Our Brain. Just about any software engineer will tell you that precisely predicting when we’ll be finished with anything is virtually impossible. This is plenty frustrating for us, but it’s even more vexing for the people who are not software developers, but have a vested interest in knowing when we’re going to be done.
The best treatment of this subject I have ever read is in the excellent book Waltzing With Bears by DeMarco and Lister (of Peopleware fame).
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Emacs Live
Mar 21, 2015
Sam Aaron is an amazing guy. We owe him a debt of gratitude for creating Sonic Pi, which is a way of making music through programming, is distributed with every Raspberry Pi, and is a fresh approach to teaching kids how to think in code while having a blast doing it.
But I’m here to talk about Emacs Live, which is a brilliant set of pre-configured packages that let you tap into the power of emacs very quickly.
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