Self-Teaching Software Development

Software Development:

Testing:
Book: Working with Legacy Code
Youtube: Design Tech Talk Series Presents: OO Designs for Testibility: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acjvKJiOvXw

Working Alone:
Book: If How To's Were Enough, We Would All Be Skinny, Rich and Happy: http://www.amazon.com/Were-Enough-Would-Skinny-Happy/dp/0967735505/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1301788394&sr=8-4

Working in Teams:
Youtube: The Role of Leadership in Software Development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEMdjslEOI

Architecture:
Study a large system:
The internet

TraceFlood

I did a project tonight: TraceFlood.com

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A representative terrible article on quants

Clearly the author knows almost no computer science, statistics, or much of anything else:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/188342-model-misbehavior-the-quants-how-a-new-breed-of-math-whizzes-conquered-wall-street-and-nearly-destroyed-it-by-scott-patterson?source=hp_wc

A Day in JFK

Stuck in NYC's JFK airport for 24 hours.

Met a friendly African man from Casablanca here to study computer information technology.

He said he thought things were very complicated here.

He was stuck for two days, and this was his first time in America.

I lent him my phone to call family in Omaha, they called friends in NY.

He had to wait for them to call back.

I wanted to scavenge the terminals for a good source of food and wifi.

He had a lot of baggage but followed.

I taught him how to ride a moving walkway and then how to use chopsticks to eat Chinese food.

They finally arranged a ride and place for him to stay, he offered to let me come.

I declined to spend more time exploring the terminals.

He told me his name was Kelvin, I told him mine.

It was widely rumored among baggage claim employees that the international terminal, 4, had the best food before security.

Over the intercom, 'Welcome to Terminal 4 at John F Kennedy International Airport. Please keep your luggage with you at all times. Unattended baggage will be removed for inspection and may be destroyed.'

Time to sleep on this bench in front of Peet's Coffee & Tea

some questions, once asked, cannot be answered

Typical Night in Berkeley

Walking back from the gym I noticed a crowd around an SUV, some peering under it. It looked like a cat was hiding under so the family with the car didn't want to drive away and risk running it over. I asked what it was- it was a loose, possibly feral, Guinea Pig. Since the family was dressed up and I was coming back from the gym and dirty, I volunteered to crawl under and chase it to safety. So I did.

After that I went to an Indian restaurant because I had a $50 gift certificate for the place from a friend. After some fuss, they gave me food and marked the gift certificate down to $42 to account for the meal. Ten minutes into eating, an old Indian man, possibly the manager, came by my table and asked to see the certificate, then confiscated it because they thought it was forged or somehow not authorized.