September 2009
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Premature Optimisation. Follow-Up
Something else about last night’s critique that struck me. With only one exception, every time someone went into too much detail in a part of their painting it compromised the whole. The notable exception was someone (Jean) that had sufficient mastery to work at such a level of detail consistently across the entire painting.
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Inspection. The Group Critique (Painting)
I experienced my first group painting critique tonight. 20+ paintings and a dozen people critiquing them one by one; a wonderful learning experience. The best teaching elements of code inspections early in a project, but without waste (such as adherence to coding standards). The whole process was about learning. Not, did you have a space after a paren or not. You learned about composition, brush...
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Premature Optimisation (Painting)
What a wild ride so far. I’ve learned so much already. The biggest breakthrough so far is that not only do you not try and paint the details, you totally ignore them at the start. In your mind you blur them out, and look for simple shapes of similar value and you lay those down. You “block it out.” Afterwards you start refining those blocks (sections/shapes).
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“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are...”
– Theodore N. Vail
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News today says hybrid cars need a sound for...
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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm”
– Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (pseud. Colette)
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
– Steve Jobs
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Emotional Decisions
dba: Changing the Sale Number will cause all kinds of problems for downstream systems
dev: Which systems will be affected?
dba: I don't know but there'll be lots of problems
dev: OK, what kinds of problems?
dba: I don't know but there'll be lots of problems
dev: Can you describe one; a single problem?
dba: No, but there'll be lots of them
dev: Well, I don't know what to do about that other than to say I will totally not consider it
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