Daily Shaarli
90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software
Most software is boring one-off applications in corporations, under-girding every imaginable facet of the global economy.
Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things
In the main they converge on doing things which increase revenue or reduce costs.
You really want to be attached to Profit Centers - Engineers in particular are usually very highly paid Cost Centers
Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends
Your most important professional skill is communication
- Pace
- Power (from your belly)
- Pause
- Depth
- Inflection (not AT people)
Creative Commons has officially launched CC Search, a search engine that indexes over 300 million images from 19 image collections, "including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse." All of the indexed images are in the public domain and released under Creative Commons licenses--meaning the images are generally free to use in a non-commercial setting.
Just published a gtypist lesson. The README is below.
GNU's gtypist program is a great way for Linux users to improve their typing speed right from the command line, and is widely available for every distribution. I personally used it extensively when I switched from practicing law to programming and discovered that the keyboard was full of keys I'd basically never needed before.
