Quotations in Mar, 2010
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Miss Wilson, when she was a resident superintendent in this Palace, had a cat that apparently caught up to 60 mice a night. The corpses were then swept up in the morning. Finally, does the noble Lord recognise the fire hazard that mice pose, because they eat through insulating cables? It would be a tragedy for this beautiful Palace to burn down for lack of a cat.
— Baroness Finlay of Llandaff # 31st March 2010, 4:06 pm
We’ve got a rule of thumb inside Stamen that issue names must read like imperatives: “improve variable names”, “delete blah functionality”, “fix broken jimmy-jammers”, etc. Nothing focuses the mind of the reporter like being asked to specify what exactly they’d like to see done, and it’s much easier for a developer to scan a list with actual tasks right in the sentence construction.
— Michal Migurski # 25th March 2010, 8:09 pm
The operations team is the one place with access to data and traffic that is “real-time enough” to detect business issues before they manifest in significant monetary loss. Traffic anomalies, chargeback rates, visitor retention… all these translate into money. This is what ops does; they make things work; they make the business work. And they spend a lot more time trending, investigating and analyzing than they do replacing hard drives and network cards.
— Theo Schlossnagle # 24th March 2010, 12:43 am
Each speaker gets five minutes to explain their research, with a human metronome banging a waste bin with a big stick after every minute. After five minutes, an eight-year old girl (last night, actually two twins) walks across the stage and says “Please Stop, I’m Bored” and repeats it until the speaker does indeed stop.
— Ian Mansfield # 19th March 2010, 11:07 am
If HTML is just another bytecode container and rendering runtime, we’ll have lost part of what made the web special, and I’m afraid HTML will lose to other formats by willingly giving up its differentiators and playing on their turf.
— Alex Russell # 17th March 2010, 10:37 pm
We spent $860,000 rebuilding our intranet. The most popular page on the intranet is still the cafeteria menu.
— Intranet Secrets # 17th March 2010, 10:02 am
I’m not worried about guys like us. There will always be machines for us (powerful, complex, etc.). Why? Because if for some magical reason there wasn’t all of a sudden, we’re the type that would just make one.
— Jason L. Baptiste # 2nd March 2010, 9:36 am