Links for the week

by John on June 6, 2009

Some interesting links I ran across this week.

FDA approves first drug developed specifically for cancer in dogs

Tom Peters’ take on why GM fell

From Andrew Gelman: “… the alternative to doing statistics is not ‘not doing statistics,’ it’s ‘doing bad statistics.’”

FOMO (fear of missing out)

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1 Gene Harris 06.07.09 at 13:13: Item #3 under the 11 Assumptions link really caught my eye: “Writing software is an act of craftsmanship.” The author really nailed it. I’ve seen so much “gold plated” software in my life. Software production is an ROI decision, unless you are doing it as a hobby.

My father-in-law loves to build furniture fine furniture. (And he’s really good at it.) But his day job is a commercial real-estate developer. He likes to build solid buildings that he can rent, not architectural dreams. He once told me not to confuse my hobby with my day job.
2 John MacIntyre 06.07.09 at 16:38: Gene – Thanks for your “The author really nailed it” comment.

John – Thanks for the link and the comment on my blog. I wasn’t sure how to handle the pingback link, since it showed up as a comment. I cleaned it up a bit … hopefully you feel I kept the spirit of it. thx again. JM