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11/02/2009

» The Lost Decade | Print Article | Newsweek.com

Business people leading tech company == FAIL!

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10/31/2009

“ This viewpoint has a distinct influence from Heinlein, who said both that A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill (a viewpoint I touched upon in my other blog last week, The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark) and I never learned from a man who agreed with me. „
7 Lessons for Software Developers from Heinlein | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew

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10/30/2009

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10/30/2009

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10/26/2009

“ In these situations, past experience may not help, says Christopher. “What is needed most is insane determination to see something through when failure is a more likely result than success. „
Dream job 3: Lead programmer for a dot-com start-up - 25 October 2009 - New Scientist

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10/22/2009

“ The best part of it is the box with “You put in other details”. I would point out that engineers get these sort of requests all the time. Oh, they’re more professionally written and not so crudely drawn, but just about every engineer has had a run-in with a boss or client who mistook a desire for an idea and then asked the engineer to close the gap between the two. „
Twenty Sided  » Blog Archive  » You Put in Other Details

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10/20/2009

RT @lucianop: “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” ~Jean Cocteau #quote

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10/14/2009

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10/13/2009

» Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

Seems like TED talks can’t be embedded anymore :(

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10/10/2009

» WTF, Google? | TechWatch | Fast Company

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