Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.