Category: Found
Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.
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Extreme Programming, 14 years later
[F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books were published describing how this couldn’t possibly work, and how all the proponents were knuckle-dragging, money-grubbing, nitwits who never wrote a line of code in their lives and…. Extreme Programming, 14 years later
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Spying in virtual worlds
Can virtual marketplaces for magical D&D weapons really be used for laundering real-world cash from criminal enterprises? Spying in virtual worlds
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Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)
Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software customers grew by 350 percent for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2013, with Fortune 1000 companies accounting for nearly 60 percent of Chef’s sales. Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)
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LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone
LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone
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An editor’s reading like and habbits
I like to spend some time looking through that and try to figure out, do I understand this paper and can I explain what it’s saying to people in a way that will make sense in a post on a website? A good reading list and explanation of habits too. An editor’s reading like and…
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The weekly manager meeting
Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: “How are you?” The weekly manager meeting
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The kookie, nerd uncle
My 16-year-old cousin: I broke my phone. Me: I will give you an iPhone 5s if you agree to one condition. Young cousin: Deal. Me: I’m also going to send you a three-pound bronze plaque that says “Donated by the world’s best uncle/cousin” and you need to superglue the phone to the plaque and carry…
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You are being watched over by twentysomething computer handlers who can be bought with foosball, free sodas and easily approved car loans. Chris N. Brown
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With time you realize that the number of questions outnumbers the number of answers. Pr Rodolfo Coria, Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
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IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
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Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’
Why can’t you just pay attention to my main ideas and ignore the details? Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’
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No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time
[M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were completed, improving economic efficiency, maximizing labor and machine productivity. Not a lot of creativity is needed; in fact, it might even be inefficient.” And as I like to point out: he didn’t actually make the trains run on time. No creativity needed to…
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Buying the hole, not the shovel
“This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], I think, is starting to leave very fast,” Daher said. “Companies like ours, where we become an extension of a customer’s IT to support the business — that’s the approach, and we have to understand we are that…
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40,000 plus Macs in use at Google
And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without…
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Thanksgiving becomes Thanksgiving plus a 20 minute board meeting. That sucks. All I want to do is mess around, make jokes, catch up, play some football, and overeat. –Brian Scordato
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Savings from working at home
An employer can save more than $11,000 per employee when that person works from home even half the time, according to FlexJobs. Meanwhile, a typical telecommuter saves anywhere from $2,000 to $7,000 a year on expenses like transportation and clothing. Savings from working at home
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Cloud is hard
Cloud is really, really hard. Just read the headlines – enterprises and traditional IT vendors are struggling. Cloud is hard
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“They don’t even come with APIs.”
“It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even come with APIs,” he explains. “This is the history that forced us to really look at way networks are laid out and build [devices] and do [it] ourselves. Also the cost – everything else in our data…
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