links for 2008-02-17

Six Principles for Making New Things

I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

(tags: design creativity business ideas programming software development simplicity)
Rees Re: OO

Lisp being oriented to the solitary hacker and discipline-imposing languages being oriented to social packs, another point you mention. In a pack you want to restrict everyone else’s freedom as much as possible to reduce their ability to interfere with an

(tags: programming language design computing)
How to Do Philosophy

These seem to me what philosophy should look like: quite general observations that would cause someone who understood them to do something differently.

(tags: philosophy howto ideas thinking)
WP-Cache 2.0

WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.

(tags: wordpress plugin blogging tools)

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