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New board game: Startup Fever
(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The Mature Entrepreneur - Part III (What's in it for your customer?)
(qualityandinnovation.com)
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New Deal for Information Technology
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I'm about to start working from home. Although my current commute is only 1.5 miles. Heavenly. :-)
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Funny you should mention that. I'm definitely buying more electronic books (Kindle app for iPad). Somehow I feel better paying less for the electronic version. But I still prefer a hard copy for the classics. :-)
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Yes, I totally agree. Learning is learning. But the pitfall is when the learner just learns the tool but misses the concept that generated the tool. I see this all the time. Knowledge and wisdom need to go hand in hand.
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It isn't that you shouldn't have those books. My point is mainly that once you read them and learn the tools, they just gather dust. I just went back and amended my post with an additional sentence. Basically, most of the books that teach t
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Thanks for the tip! Will do.
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Does your bookshelf teach concepts or just tools?
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In the particular field I'm in (radio astronomy), I usually have two choices when hiring. 1) Hire someone with radio astronomy knowledge and teach them to be a good software engineer, or 2) Hire a good software engineer and teach them a bit
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I would highly recommend that you don't lie. As a person who has hired for several positions and who also has a good BS detector, a discovered lie is always a deal breaker. It puts your entire candidacy into question and you're resume goe
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The Mature Entrepreneur - Part II (Bringing your A-game)
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Interview with Alan Hardy, Programme Lead for Scala eXchange
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A most excellent book, indeed.
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Endeavour crew launch their own Star Trek poster
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The Mature Entrepreneur
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Mature Entrepreneurs Wanted
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Using Twitter for SEO
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Tie that in with "more cowbell" for the killer Christopher Walken App.
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Constant Change and Success
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This is cool. An interesting tidbit. We actually used Logo as a programming metaphor when creating our telescope observation software for the Green Bank Telescope ( http://www.gb.nrao.edu/gbt/ ) in Python. The observation software has been
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Stand Up While You Read This
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I have to agree with too stealth. You are trying to generate interest by getting people to think. The problem is that most web surfers don't want to think. And you have to realize that the people on this forum from whom you are asking advic
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I think the most horrible part of that is that I continue to experience the same shock I felt when I first saw it each time I bring it up. It is like I'm seeing it again for the first time and have to reorient myself. I'm wondering how many
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