Mike Ford

A reminder to software vendors: @SpaceX lists a price for a Falcon 9 launch. You can publish your list price online.

Here's a brutal truth: Career novelists aren't the most talented writers. They're adequately talented writers who finish what they start.

I'm convinced the majority of people managing infrastructure just want a PaaS. The only requirement: it has to be built by them.

"No amount of elegant programming or technology will solve a problem if it is improperly specified or understood to begin with."-Milt Bryce

If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.

if you ever code something that "feels like a hack but it works," just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking

Me meeting w a GPU co last week: Me: Why is this designed this way? GPU eng: We ran out of time and were busy on other things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America.

“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” - John Carmack

Abstraction trades an increase in real complexity for a decrease in perceived complexity. That isn't always a win.

A phrase someone used that I thought well of was "find the corners of the box", rather than "think outside the box". More engineer-like.

"Thinking outside the box" gets lots of praise, but thinking creatively inside very small boxes can give a lot of leverage.

The best way to complain is to make something.

Up through the 90's, so much of software engineering was about "how are we going to reuse code". We might have gone a little bit overboard.