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reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig

/via @bookwormat

"A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation is also damn near worthless. If your software solves the wrong problem or nobody can figure out how to use it, there's something very bad going on."

— Tom Preston-Werner: Readme Driven Development

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."

— Alan Kay

Brendan Eich: A Brief History of JavaScript

Highly recommended.

"So wow, RSS and Atom XML feeds are starting to become as irrelevant as "Made for Netscape" buttons and <blink> tags. As someone who has written their own custom news reader and uses it daily, I'm pretty amazed."

— Russel Beattie

Some interesting background related to Gmail's recently introduced new UI element:

"If there’s one thing we should all take to heart, it’s that humans are strange: They rarely behave the way we expect (or want) them to. Testing often reveals issues we would never have found out by merely thinking about a design. Conversely, something that looks wrong might actually work perfectly well."

— Opinions vs. Data

"In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture."

— PG