Readings for Lunch — [ 03 Oct 2018 ]
PROGRAMMING
If statements should cost $10,000 each
Estimating project costs is hard. Do a project based bid… uf, it’s prone to your own optimism bias and you end up over a barrel. […]
In either situation, the likelihood that important features get cut to limit scope is high and ultimately the product suffers.
That’s why I’m proposing a third option: if-statements should cost $10,000 each.
WEB
One small step for the Web…
"Today, I believe we’ve reached a critical tipping point, and that powerful change for the better is possible — and necessary.
This is why I have, over recent years, been working with a few people at MIT and elsewhere to develop Solid, an open-source project to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web."