Author: David Weiss
Specifying Performance
When you design a software product or feature you need to consider not only what the software will do, but also how it will interact with the user. The functional requirements for the software typically refer to what the software does. Nonfunctional requirements clarify the parameters for how the software will meet the functional requirements. […]
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
We can’t know all the ways God loves His children, but He does, and so should we.
Fathers Don’t Mother
Dad’s bring something unique to each child’s development.
Building
I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town. With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell, They swung the beams and the side walls fell. I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled, The kind you’d hire were you to build?” He laughed and said, “Why, no indeed! Just […]
Infinite Plasticity
“Only here, in America, were the common folk of the Old World given a chance to show what they could do on their own, without a master to push and order them about. History contrived an earth-shaking joke when it lifted by the nape of the neck lowly peasants, shopkeepers, laborers, paupers, jailbirds, and drunks from the […]
The Hard Way is the Easy Way
“As a general rule, in prosperous societies we have been outsourcing more and more of the work that, a generation ago, was done “internally” in the home. It sounds almost quaint by comparison to life now, but in the modest neighborhood in which I grew up, there was a lot of work going on in […]
Software That Can’t Fail
I started working at Microsoft when I was 18 years old. It paid better than the landscaping job I was enjoying at the time. I didn’t know much about writing code, but I was fairly proficient with computers and wanted to learn more. There seemed to be a real opportunity to help make some great […]
Compassion and Inequality
Recently Megan McArdle, a Bloomberg View columnist, published an article titled: “How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive.” I tend to see what’s broken, more than what’s going right, so I found this a hopeful read. There really are ways to we can help with poverty, right where we are. Here a few parts of this article […]
On Criticism, Compassion, and Charity
This is beautiful.
David Weiss 