The January 14, 2008, New Yorker contains an article about Indiana in its “The Talk of the Town” section. The appearance of anything about Indiana in the New Yorker is a rarity, and a whole article, brief as it may be, was a sign that whatever it said about Indiana was not going to be [...]
January 24, 2008
Kind of Bummed
One bad thing about calculated incompetence (see previous post) is that someone, somewhere, has a negative opinion of you and your work. Like a virus, this can spread. Hopefully, the people who matter know the truth. And, in this case, it helps that the person holding the negative opinion is The Nemesis, who is also a [...]
January 24, 2008
Calculated Incompentence Pays Off
A while back I wrote a post about the benefits of calculated incompetence. Today it paid off big time. One of the projects “owned” by The Nemesis has performance problems, problems that I have verified are not due to my code, but The Nemesis is not convinced. He found someone else to investigate these performance [...]
