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Broadcasting half-formed thoughts can be desirable; we do it everyday when talking face-to-face.

It doesn't appear to be available, but there are some other interesting Cleese talks and excerpts on the topic of creativity: http://www.cornell.edu/video/?videoID=475 http://www.y…

Some of the other talks at the Creativity World Forum look interesting too. Steve Wozniak's talk, for example. The Cleese video is down, but many of the other videos, such as Wozni…

Well, I guess I'm asking for trouble arguing against a language I have no development experience in. A quick Google search shows that PHP 5.2 and earlier seem to support something …

"I am simply arguing that the most important thing in a project is the quality of the developers, not the language they chose" I agree with the first part, but I think the language…

"gives me a great deal of faith that he is in fact technically inclined, technically able and has some development experience." I'm sure he has development experience. But too limi…

"Im sorry? I must be missing the point. How does the presence (or absence) of a particular language feature prove or disprove the point that bkrausz made originally?" Yes, you are …

BS. Can PHP do this? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html (In fact the latest version of PHP (5.3) can, but for years PHP has been lacking this, so the point stands.…

Of course he could be. I don't envy the position of any non-technical person that has to make key technical decisions on a technical project. Ultimately it takes a good developer t…

If you have to ask this question, you're out of your technical depth. The best thing you can do is promote the guy who's clamoring the loudest to steer clear of PHP to technical le…

http://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/17647441068

By pure coincidence, this ties in well with something Nassim Taleb just tweeted: "Unless we manipulate our surroundings,we have as little control over what & whom we think about as…

I agree on the power of inhibition, but I think the second point you alluded to is the larger one -- the ability to remove the stimulus. Certainly it's hubris to believe that one c…

> If you want a conventionally successful career study law or medicine - professions which take protecting their wages and bargaining power seriously. Because all we need to be suc…

Progressive enhancement. When web applications are available on all devices, but work better on some devices than others, people have an incentive to switch -- and that puts pressu…