Jon Hopkins

software startups and products, healthcare technology

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@Grady_Booch So true

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

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[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@ProssimoISRG @pomeranian99 @techreview Seen in an elevator at the hotel in Cayman Islands today after finishing the article on the plane:

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@USAirForceVIP They did four go arounds before landing (didn't appear to be just circling based on altitude changes)

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

Rereading a classic that was recommended to me when it came out in 1979 by my LISP professor.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

The day will come when all programs will be written in LISP.

[Mario Fusco @mariofusco]

US wanted to export democracy to Afghanistan.

They ended up importing sharia into Texas.

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@unclebobmartin You are entirely right - it is very worthwhile

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@KentBeck I agree - what aspects of software engineering (vs. development) can they relate to to other disciplines that may be familiar. For example scale and proportion in the architecture of buildings translated to scale and proportion

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

First, if you haven't watched Frank Gehery's Masterclass (on Masterclass dot com), I highly recommend it. It got me thinking: if you had 15 segments to teach a Masterclass on software engineering, targeted towards a learned lay audience, what would the segments be?

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@Grady_Booch I just finished my first MasterClass (https://t.co/FeXseQhHtx) with Frank Gehry on Architecture. The parallels to software were wonderful and it re-energized my passion for the fascinating hybrid of craft and science we call software engineering.

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@ProductHunt Hi ProductHunt Team! I'm trying to figure out why the @SpeakPulse ProductHunt Page isn't live. It was live for our launch, but now the community is unable to view it. Can you please help?

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

https://t.co/7dHNkAVgik

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@Nathan_D_Harris Hey Nathan, Clay mentioned the twitter strategy. Fine with me.

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@rebeccawb @KentBeck @martinfowler @joshilewis @CatSwetel @TotherAlistair @nataliewarnert @WardCunningham @ivarjacobson @krubinagile I still have one of the pens that we made up that looked like Crayola crayons.

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@rebeccawb @KentBeck @martinfowler @joshilewis @CatSwetel @TotherAlistair @nataliewarnert @WardCunningham @ivarjacobson @krubinagile I organized two in 1994 and 1995 (I believe), both of them at Snowbird. Looking back they were really pivotal conferences in many ways. Adele Goldberg was at one of them as well.

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@Clint326 Thanks

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@Clint326 Thanks. That was actually meant to go to @airberlin, but it's good to know that I have empathetic friends!
lunch soon?

[Jon Hopkins @jonwhopkins]

@airberlin Thanks for your assistance. Also the bag check number was 0 745 AB 327724 if that helps