July 7, 2009
July 2, 2009
Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger present The Agile In a Flash project, which will result in a book and replenishable deck of at least 52 flash cards.
July 1, 2009

Neil asked her why she hit Control-C every time she ran her program.

“Well,” she said confidently, “I discovered that Control-C makes the % prompt come up quicker!”

June 30, 2009
June 25, 2009
June 24, 2009
The environment changed. It turns out that Clear’s business model of prescreening wasn’t going to be possible. But they kept doing it anyway. What kind of organizational dysfunction does it take to completely ignore the changed circumstances and keep at a money-losing business? What’s even funnier is that Clear could probably have been profitable if they had just skipped the one unnecessarily stupid part of their business model: the detailed background checks on all their customers. Nobody at Clear did any thinking. They had a business model, the business model wasn’t actually possible, everybody knew it, and they still plugged away at it. Thoughtless optimism. I don’t know whether to salute ‘em or laugh.
June 23, 2009
One day, I had an applicant scheduled for an 11:00 AM interview. She had been downsized a few months ago from a local manufacturing company, and seemed pretty excited at the opportunity to work with my company. As the time neared by, I took a break from what I was doing and waited for the front desk to call. The clock turned eleven. Then it turned five past. And then ten past. Finally, at quarter after, the front desk ringed to say that the candidate had just cancelled the appointment. “I asked when she’d be available for a reschedule,” the receptionist explained, “but she said she was no longer interested in the position. Apparently, she had walked halfway through the parking lot and found that it was far too windy for her. She just couldn’t see herself going to work through that kind of weather each day.
June 16, 2009
Комментарий к статье “Самому старому человеку в мире было 256 лет” Alex: восьмибитный мужик. прожил бы и больше да разрядность подвела.
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June 15, 2009
June 5, 2009