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On Why We Don’t Know Know-How
[…] elevator—try to imagine modern high-rise cities without them. The second item was the pre-printed adhesive postage stamp—try to imagine…
On The Adhesive Postage Stamp—Extraordinary Ordinary Things
[…] notice them; yet have completely transformed how we live. The first item in the series was the elevator—try to…
On The Elevator—Extraordinary Ordinary Things
There is a reason ants haven't evolved beyond living in holes and will never colonize mars. I agree that Conway's…
On Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy
Most if not all innovations are a mixed blessing, with a mix of benefits, liabilities, costs, and risks. In my…
On Spike those “Luddite” Awards: Not all innovation is good
I wonder how atomic power, Internet, and fracking would rate on your human-centric innovation scale? Often, what seemed like a…
On Spike those “Luddite” Awards: Not all innovation is good
Most open source projects are distributed in the sense that nobody tells contributors what to work on. Yes, a leader…
On Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy
"A chief programmer is not needed to dictate the next state of the code base" And yet, projects with a…
On Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy
I never thought on that, very interesting. Ants knows what to do without to think. They just continue the other…
On Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy
Ted, absolutely. This is why I included the example of percentages. Once people clearly understand that "percent" is just a…
On Language Lessons from a Steam-powered Light Bulb