The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. Tom Cargill, Bell Labs (the Ninety-ninety rule )
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need : zenhabits And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make things enjoyable and 2) use positive public pressure . Also, reframing things can go a long way into motivating someone to do something they really don’t wan’t to do!
Camels and Rubber Duckies – Joel on Software The answer is really complicated. I’m going to start with a little economic theory, then I’m going to tear the theory to bits, and when I’m finished, you’ll know a lot more about pricing and you still won’t know how much to charge for your software, but that’s just the nature of pricing.
73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up — How to Interpret Analysts Reports The problem of skewing results: (…) How is it skewed? There are so many ways to present data to tell the story you want that I can’t even list every way data is skewed. Here are some examples: You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant . This is often naiveté rather than malicious You ask a group that is not unbiased....
Facebook Home prototyped in Quartz Composer – Tutorial Facebook Home is prototyped with Quartz Composer (by Facebook), @DaveOBrien_ (a design student from Ireland) reverse engineered it and made 5 tutorials explaining how it’s done!
Lowering your price may help you increase revenue, but lower it too much and you cost yourself money. (via Understanding App Store Pricing — Part 3 — Jury.me ) Loosely speaking, we refer to situations where a percentage change in price leads to a larger percentage change in quantity sold as elastic. Situations where a the percentage change in price and quantity sold are roughly equal are called unit elastic....
(via Just For Fun: ADHD and Routine )
The Simplest and Most Effective Method of All? – Blog – Get Everything Done 3 + 2* Write down three tasks Do the first two in order Add another two tasks (so there are three tasks again) Do the first two in order Repeat ad infinitum (…) I myself have found it works best for me the less I consult them [ lists ]. This is because every time I do two tasks the method requires me to think carefully about what I should do next....
(via a show :: thoughts on the creative career ) If you wanna be something, start being it. (…) Not tomorrow, but today! Get your work in front of other people (…) you really respect. When you get a criticism, you don’t have to take all of it, or none of it. You get to piece it a apart and take the part which you think are valuable and throw away the ones you think aren’t really worth it....
I must admit my heart sank a little bit a lot when saw this on my RescueTime “Weekly Summary” email… Oh dear! “Notepad”? Really?!? Sounds like a clear case of corporactivitis to me 🙁 For The Week Of April 04, 2013Top applications and websites: 13h 06m — wiki.netpost 6h 16m — NotePad 5h 01m — MS Excel 3h 39m — MS Outlook 2h 09m — Windows Explorer