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One thing I forgot to mention in Part 1 of The Interview was that the question doesn’t need to be reserved for technical oriented interviews. Playing with the wording a little bit, allows the question to be suited to just about any type of position. I used this same question technique when I was asked [...]
So for those that don’t *really* know me, I tend to be a bit of an introvert (ok, ok, for those that *really* know me, a lot of an introvert), and can have some pretty geeky tendencies at times. But I think the subject matter of this post could be useful to both introverts and [...]
I really agree with the below quote from Fred Wilson. The reason the movie & music industry keep finding themselves in a losing battle is because they aren’t listening to their customers and providing them with what they want and how they want it. If they ever start doing that, I really believe they’ll see [...]
Jim decided to respond to my post regarding language vs. language debates, specifically looking at PHP and Ruby / Ruby on Rails. He makes some good points, but there is some stuff that I’d like to respond to and clarify… To say that one language is better than the other is meaningless. Better in what [...]
(Fair warning, if you aren’t a nerd, you might want to skip this post) Are we (programmers, developers, engineers) still really having these debates? Give me a break. Java vs. .NET, Java vs. PHP, .NET vs. PHP, now Ruby on Rails vs. PHP. The other day, Jeremy, sent me these. They’re a series of videos [...]
NOTE: It surprises me that this post is still so popular after all this time (based on web stats). Unfortunately while moving hosts the calculator mentioned in this post was lost. However given the continued popularity of this post, I have reopened comments and will try to rewrite the calculator in the near future. (12/15/2008) [...]
I was going to let this just slide into the linkblog, but I think it’s unbelievable enough that it deserves attention from my main blog. There is currently a court case taking place (Elektra v. Barker, pending in Manhattan federal court before Judge Kenneth Karas) in which the RIAA has made the following claim: merely [...]