Let's start working on one for Rails
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I am merely saying that we should bring the best parts of fiction and storytelling to academic writing as I believe more people would be read it and gain inspiration / insight from it.
"Why most people won't read your thesis"
I think you are an exceptional person if you are reading more than 1 thesis.
Didn't mean to offend with the title, but I was hoping to elicit that kind of reaction. I have had this talk with a bunch of people at the University of Toronto and we all sort of agree.. but I am an extremist I guess.
If you are interested in Context Awareness and HCI then I will send you a copy when I am done ;)
A lot of competition though. Will have to give it a try before making a switch.
Version was code written onto a CD-R
Control was a person who got a full 60K Salary for monitoring a room with a bunch of file folders with different versions of the software. When you made a commit you burned a new CD and brought to Tim on the 5th Floor.
You can't make this stuff up.
What does everyone think?
I feel like these kind of stories come out a little too often though. What ever happened to IBM's super memory prototype?
I hate to be skeptical, but I will believe it when I see it.
I am just reading Bill Buxton's book called Sketching the User Experience again and I am on the Sketching chapter!
Great post.
He talks about how this one is different and how it focuses on the positive of keeping your job rather than desperate ways of loosing it.
Regardless Chad Fowler is a fantastic author and has a great story and message to share with the programming community.