Renaissance

To RAM is human, to ROM is divine

No Junk, No confusion

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams, English humorist and science fiction novelist, perhaps
best known for his novel “The Hitch hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

You either get bogged down by the impending deadlines or you learn to enjoy them. Now that I am trying to enjoy the dooming deadline as it approaches me. I don’t know if it will make whooshing sound as it passes me.

As some one said, Schedules are made so that you can miss them. Making a schedule has been a mixed bag for me till now. Spot on if the I am in total control (read individual work) wayward for a group. There is more to programming.

Here I list the schedule made for WinWord at Microsoft for amusement purpose. The chart is adapted from Steve’s Rapid Development book.

Some lessons from WinWord schedule. Aggressive schedule prevented accurate planning. A 60-80 percentage was wishful thinking. The constant part of the schedule was firefighting.

This project experienced extremely high turnover. It had four development leads in 5 years, including two who quit the project because of schedule pressure and one who quit because of medical reason.

Because of schedule pressure, developers shortchanges their feature implementations, declaring them to be done even though they had low quality and in fact were incomplete. The result was that WinWord spent 12 months in Stabilization a period that had been expected to be take only 3 months!

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“All paid job absorb and degrade the mind”
- Aristotle (?)

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“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

John Keynes

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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
- Bjarne Stroustrup

No, he is not talking about iPhone

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• You have around 5 million hair follicles which is on par with other primates
• The number of head hairs varies with natural hair colour. Blondes have around 1,40,000 brunettes 1,05,000 and readheads a paltry 90,000
• Left uncut, the average persons hair would grow to waits length in about 4 month
• The first blondes appeared only around 11,000 years ago
• Almost 90 percent of the hair on your scalp is growing at any moment
• You lose between 50 to 100 head hairs a day

Quotes

“One thing I’ve used on the google is to pull up maps. I kind of like to look at the ranch”
George W. Bush on his love of Google Maps

“People tend to have urges to procreate in times of extreme situation”
The head of south korea’s institute for sex and education. Serong Gyeong Won, explaining why condom sales have rocketed following the North Korea’s nuclear test.

(Via : NewScientist)

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