tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79598927689106266672011-08-22T16:45:59.574-04:00MusingsHoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-15789051103542418832011-02-11T15:18:00.006-05:002011-02-11T15:49:37.329-05:00Running Upstairs - What Fighter Pilots Know About AgilityThe esteemed Paul Graham of Y Combinators wrote this vivid and compelling story of "running upstairs":Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for Hoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-10083342891394268082010-07-14T15:06:00.005-04:002010-07-16T15:03:11.603-04:00The DVCS that is not a DVCSToday, I found out about Veracity. The opening paragraphs put up my Skepticism Alert. It claims to be able to do things that git and mercurial were unable to do. It is right in that DVCS has changed the landscape, the two articles with the deepest insights on these changes is first, Forking, The Future of Open Source, and Github, written by @sogrady, an analyst over at Redmonk; the second is "Hoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-84738622342972171292010-03-05T12:15:00.001-05:002010-03-05T12:15:00.202-05:00AreteYou can tell when an artist makes big motions,and his skill when they are small,but sometimes I wonder what happenedto those I can't see at all?Hoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-90191117121706021902010-02-20T15:14:00.003-05:002010-03-03T19:58:51.267-05:00Intangible Assets and Sunk Cost FallacyI once read Jerry Pournell's series centered around Falkenberg's Legion. There, he describes how people in that time no longer research Computer Science. Software developers never wrote software. They piece together building blocks. This was partly due to the dominant polity forbidding anyone from researching computer science. However, their grip among all the colony worlds were slipping, and Hoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.com3