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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Sound Engineering and Premature Extrapolation
In a recent post Patrick Logan has a few pointers and quotes about Premature Extrapolation. Henry Petroski’s Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering provides a similar perspective, albeit from an angle that has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Silicon Valley’s Secret Sauce
In his latest essay Paul Graham dissects what makes Silicon Valley “the” Silicon Valley. As someone who lived and worked in two (self proclaimed) Silicon Valley-like technology parks (the Silicon Alps and the Silicon Prairie) I found Graham’s discussion of … Continue reading
Pattern Languages of Program Design
After a long gestation the fifth volume of Pattern Languages of Program Design (PLoPD) has been published. Myself, Markus and James selected among patterns workshopped at PLoP conferences from 1998 through 2004. We structured the book in six parts. Part … Continue reading