I have this t-shirt. It reads: “Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil.” Because if we take those two first popular truisms and put them together, we get a very unpopular conclusion.
The truisms of our business are “It’s an attention economy, where revenue is driven by how much attention you can get,” and [...]
Probably my most annoying coding blind spot…
20 Oct
Posted by Elf Sternberg as personal, programming, python
Do you have that one thing that you have to constantly look up?
In python, to replace elements of a string, there are two operators. One is a strictly linear search, the other uses regular expressions. The regexp call to replace part of a string with another string is sub, and the string call to replace [...]
I’ve put up my resume.
08 Apr
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Design, Linux, javascript, personal, python, web development
As some of you may have heard, I recently lost my job at Isilon. In that great tradition, I have put up my resume. Have a look, and please comment on the content or presentation of either version:
Kenneth M. Sternberg, Senior Web and User Interface Developer and Designer.
There’s a copy for printing here.
Hi. For those of you who are new to the Elf Sternberg brand, allow me to introduce myself. I’m one of the curmudgeonly old men of the Internet and I started my first blog around 1991 (no, that’s not a typo, you young whippersnapper). Most people know me as a adult science [...]
