As a systems administrator, I tend to think about source code and computing platform in large numbers. Computers however are getting smaller and more powerful, and the reality of computers that we put in or on our body as a normal daily routine is coming closer, and for many is already here. When our safety, our liberty, and our sense of humanity are tied to programmable devices, should we not only hope, but expect that we should have the right to examine how these devices function? Last August Karen Sandler, the executive directory of the GNOME foundation gave a short talk about her implante...

As a developer, you are sitting on a goldmine. Do you even realize it? No, seriously, a @#$% goldmine!Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination.Think about the biggest websites you visit or use on a regular basis: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, or even Google for that matter -- all of them were created by developers who created something from little more than an idea in their head. Was it easy for them? Heck no. But it could only have been done in today's day and...

Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote the seminal analysis of management andefficiency in 1911 with The Principles of Scientific Management. Hetook the first scientific approach towards maximizing efficiency inmanufacturing jobs. Time is money. Faster is better. More hours are better.Hours are bullshitHours are great ways to determine productivity in many industries, but notours. Working in a startup is a much different experience than working in afactory. You can’t throw more time at a problem and expect it to get solved.Code is a creative endeavor. You need to be in the right mindset to crea...