howardtharp

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by howardtharp 16y ago
Then by all means, put it in the No pile. Love it or hate it, email is the place employees spend most of their days. Good writing makes that time both shorter, and more worthwhile. (Not to mention blogging, announcements, support materials,
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by howardtharp 16y ago
Not at all... if part of the job they're applying for requires good communication skills. (And these days, even the most heads-down programmer needs that... bug reports, support docs, etc.) That said, I think grammatical errors from an ESL
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The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis.(ariegoldshlager.posterous.com)
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Pioneers, Town Planners and those missing Settlers.(blog.gardeviance.org)
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by howardtharp 16y ago
Wow, this is great. Joining from San Jose. Is the first one recorded?
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Act like a fun, friendly consumer service provider if you're in enterprise IT(thetoandfro.com)
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by howardtharp 17y ago
I don't think of it as turning to a network instead of knowing something. I think of it as turning to a network instead of Googling. (We all look up stuff constantly. Price-checking, deadline checking, version validation, tactics, etc. We
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by howardtharp 17y ago
Though not the primary point of the article, I quite liked this line: "Of course the tech companies are all about being paid, for doing what they do. The users are like hamsters on a treadmill. Do you ever think about paying hamsters? I don