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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)(lessonsoffailure.com)
30 points by gacba 16y ago|10 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
You know, if that guy from Mumbai could actually solve P = NP for a cool million, that's bargain. That is, if you get the rights to the solution. :D
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by gacba 16y ago
Is it just me or is there as much urban slang (chillax) as there is PHB-speak? (paradigm shift)
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by gacba 16y ago
Can't be the REAL C&H search engine: I tried typing in "Bill Watterson" in the box and got NO search results. Seriously? If there's one query to get right, it's that one.
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by gacba 16y ago
I believe the duct-taped reference is an attempt to get Western audiences to think about the article in the same light as Indian ones who understand the term Jugaad ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad ) loosely termed, "innovative fix".
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by gacba 16y ago
My first response when I saw the title was that Apple was acquiring the necessary materials to build Terminators...whoa. Need more coffee.
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by gacba 16y ago
And as pointed out in Wargames, whoever strikes first still loses. MAD (mutually assured destruction) is not a pretty thing.
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How to Avoid Being the Asshole Architect(lessonsoffailure.com)
2 points by gacba 16y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
Never assume the power of idiocy will be subsumed by the power of common sense.
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by gacba 16y ago
Speaking as a former pro photographer, your blogger's advice is unfortunately high-quality. However, with that said, there are other photographers (well known ones like George Lepp) who are making their own photo stock agencies because the
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by gacba 16y ago
You pay either way: Either the Apple Tax, or in your time to configure it right. Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
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by gacba 16y ago
Why would you insist on a homepage, with no secure information or login form whatsoever, have SSL security on it? Neither Quicken nor Mint do this on THEIR home pages.
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by gacba 16y ago
Boy meets new Mac. Boy falls in love with Mac. Boy decides to ditch Windows laptop. +1 Fanboy. Where's the story here? Because he's a VC this is news?
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by gacba 16y ago
All this just confirms the signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter is incredibly low. Too bad, because poorly phrased or not, the question was interesting.
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by gacba 16y ago
I hear lots of people talk about how their idea is some competitive advantage. Ideas are cheap. Ideas can be stolen. It's how you execute that counts, and that's what Jason's post drives home. Nicely done.
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by gacba 16y ago
Beat me to the comment. I was thinking the same thing.
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by gacba 16y ago
New parentage and development are a rough combination. I'm on #3 and while the routine is more familiar, the workload increases almost exponentially with each new one, especially when they're spaced close (<18 months apart) together.
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by gacba 16y ago
I'll add a contrarian view about Agile in big companies--I consulted for a major media company in NYC that used Rally and "did Agile" but it was mostly lip service and the daily scrum meetings were more like status reports. It was their sh
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The Problem With 'Above Average Programmers'(lessonsoffailure.com)
3 points by gacba 16y ago|3 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
For those who want to know more about cosmic rays, Wikipedia is filled with goodness on the subject. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray ) I was looking for stats on average density per m2 to determine just how prevalent this effect
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by gacba 16y ago
<insert your supreme being here> help us if you're wrong. shudder
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by gacba 16y ago
I'm thinking that 10,000 bananas in your stomach at the same time would be an even GREATER concern.
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by gacba 16y ago
Arguing that 9/11 can happen in cyberspace is complete idiocy. No one will die if crackers take out the IRS database, unleash a worm, or release credit card data on everyone in the country. Saying these two events are somehow equivalent r
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The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie(lessonsoffailure.com)
43 points by gacba 16y ago|26 comments
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Walking Into The Wrong Bathroom: Lack of Affordances(lessonsoffailure.com)
1 points by gacba 16y ago|0 comments
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Secrets of Successful Consultants Revealed(lessonsoffailure.com)
1 points by gacba 16y ago|0 comments
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Top Ten Reasons Babies are better than iPads (and vice-versa)(lessonsoffailure.com)
1 points by gacba 16y ago|0 comments
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by gacba 16y ago
Actually, this isn't very conclusive. All it says is that his website's layout doesn't matter left or right weighted. Jakob Nielsen tested more than one website and came to a very different conclusion: Left weighted sites are preferable
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by gacba 17y ago
I told them not to mess with their .htaccess unless they knew what they were doing!
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Top Motivators For Developers (Hint: not money)(lessonsoffailure.com)
151 points by gacba 17y ago|88 comments

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