Take Your Time, It's Faster

I've been a software developer for about a decade now. I've worked my way up to a team lead position and delivered quite a few projects, with a couple of really big ones recently. These recent ones had mixed levels of success, depending upon how success of IT projects is measured. From these projects, I've learned some things, which I'm going to share now.

Proving the Bible is Questionable in Court

An interesting thing that I've just stumbled upon: We can test in the courts whether religious texts are reasonably questionable.

Crappy Commercial Claims

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the kind of crappy claims that cosmetic companies make, with a view to presenting an option for them to actually improve their scientific credibility.

That proposal was predicated on the industry having motivation to have real credibility. I don't think they do, as the numbers don't work. Faux credibility, like that gained by showing complex computer graphics, is much cheaper. Skirting the boundary of deception in order to make large profits is a foregone conclusion, but I don't want to just single out that industry on those grounds.

I want to single out some other industries as well, just to point out their bad behaviour:

Crappy Cosmetic Claims

Buzzword bingo claims that are not helped by the existence of multiple spelling mistakes.

What do cosmetics companies like Estée Lauder and some guy called Gene Science have in common? They're involved in making the cosmetics industry completely disreputable.

Profitable Pizza

Here's an idea that I've been telling my friends and colleagues about for a few years, in the hope that someone will quit their job, work on it, and prove that it works, just so I can say, "huh, I thought so."