Edge Cases

Naiveté as a Service

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Links:

• Review: Monument Valley’s Forgotten Shores expansion is a triumph « iMore
• A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year « Jared Sinclair
• Omni « Brent Simmons (inessential.com)
• 74: One of Us Shipped Something « Accidental Tech Podcast
• The Omni Group
• Tapbots — Robots for your iPhone & iPod Touch
• AgileBits
• _DavidSmith
• Future of Fortunate Bear and VectorBoolean « Safe from the Losing Fight
• Damien Katz tweet: “Distributed systems, don’t read the literature. Most of it is outdated and unimaginiive. Invent and reinvent. The field is fertile. Really.”
• Damien Katz tweet: “When designing CouchDB, early on, I had experienced engineers tell me don’t. I don’t know enough. I look foolish.”
• Damien Katz tweet: “I was wrong. Don’t implement anything until you’ve read everything.”
• Leon Bambrick tweet: “@damienkatz i don’t think you really believe that. Implement, elicit constructive feedback and then JIT the lit. Surely?”
• Damien Katz tweet: “I don’t discourage anyone from reading papers. But sometimes a new perspective can produce amazing results. I try not to waste my ignorance.”
• Shoshin « Wikipedia
• The Pragmatic and the Academic « Edge Cases