Comments on: Email is not a fat pipe. We forget this at our peril.

By: Ryan J. McDonough

Ryan J. McDonough — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:20:40 +0000

My wife just pointed me to this post as a recent email just elicited the same feelings you just described. So I guess I’ll leave the gun at home then. Thanks!

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:42:50 +0000

Thanks for the exposition, both in the direct lesson, as well as what was for me at least, a nice jump-off point for musing on the lossy compression algorithms of our human brains (i.e. conjecture/inference). Not too hard to imagine that evolving as a survival tool, a competitive advantage over those slower brains that required more data to discern saber-tooth tiger rustling in the bushes from other forms of rustling.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:28:29 +0000

Good things to remind everyone of. I have the same emotional response to those kinds of bugs (what do you mean? It’s doing exactly what I told it to!). But how would the client know that?