Quotes

  • Raising Rates

    This quote from today’s Clients From Hell newsletter is a lot like what I posted about last week: Clients will often claim that they can get a man in Malaysia at one-tenth your price point, or that there’s a fresh-faced kid who’s hungry for your work. They’re not wrong, but they are short-sighted. That kid…

  • IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary

    In the end, Brown and his team were forced to remove the Urban Dictionary from Watson’s vocabulary, and additionally developed a smart filter to keep Watson from swearing in the future. via IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary. A more glorious misuse of technology could not have been conceived. Of course…

  • The first rule of functions…

    The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. Functions should not be 100 lines long. Functions should hardly ever be 20 lines long. What Constitutes Clean Code in WordPress? – @tommcfarlin (original quote from Clean Code by Bob Martin)