Have You Ever Heard Of SEMA? It's A Fairly Esoteric System For Measuring How Good A Software Team Is.

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• So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characte
  character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine....
• A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
  It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....
• Five-Minute University teaches you in five minutes what the average college student remembers five years after he or she's out of school .
  .. Say, if you want to take Spanish, what I teach you is "Como esta usted....
• Then there's the atmosphere -- half the time you can eat the air, it's got so much stuff floating around in it.
  It takes the edge out of the colors. Down here even the traffic lights are pastel....
• Joey: God, I just, I hate her! I hate her!! With her, "Oh, I'm so talented.
  and "Oh, I'm so pretty," and "Ooh, I smell so good....
• Want to be a composer? ... If you can think design, you can execute design--it's only a bunch of air molecules, who's gonna check up on you?
  Just follow these simple instructions: 1. Declare your intention to create a "composition....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....
• Moe: D'oh, he's going to ruin everything! All right, that's it, Home
  either Burns goes, or Moe goes. Apu: Yes, I am afraid that I am going to have to make a similar threat with my name in place of Moe's name....