Technology: January 2008 Archives

I watched a video recording of Steve Blank discussing the history of Silicon Valley at Google today. Surprisingly, the tech capital of the world has its roots in the electronic warfare of WWII. I’ve loved reading WWII history since I was a kid and the speaker even includes clips from several WWII movies during his presentation.

It’s an hour, but was very informative and enjoyable to watch. Highly recommended for anyone who loves WWII history, technology, or both.

Words I try to live by.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.