Business is about creating value. “Value” is here… um… pretty anything that is of value: products, services, capital, information, emotions, health, security (taking over risks) or things leading to value (like software features or legal regulations). When value is created, it can be sold to customers in exchange to other kinds of value. Normally, you have to invest …
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Lost in translation
On his way to seniority, every junior software developer has to deal with commenting source code. Usually, it starts with following a recommendation from his favorite programming book. The novice developer is so exited that a program he has written himself, with his own fingertips, compiles, runs and breathes that he is eager to follow any advice from his book, …
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Looking at picture of 5 different tonal levels in Cantonese. Good: they use only 9 tones of 25 mathematically possible. Bad: I can’t sing. # Now I know why Mandarin is recommended for beginners. There, they have only two levels and 4 tones. How easy is that… # hr sendete gerade faszinierende Eröffnungsshow der Internationalen …
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Running around and drinking liters of milk. Have eaten a small Habanero Chili. With stem and seeds. # Fresh Habaneros taste strange and juicy… in the first two seconds, before the PAIN comes. # @bobuk ?????????. ????????? ?????????? ?????? ???? ? ??????? ??????????. 44 ????? ?????? ?? ??????. ? ????? ?????? ?? ???????? in reply …
I have a dream…
Today is the Saturday, the day where everybody in Germany goes shopping for the next week. In my family, we use to buy things either in a discounter, which has a small assortment, various and unstable levels of quality, but low prices; or in a huge store with a great assortment, stable quality, but also …
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?????????? Wi-Fi ? ????????? – ??? ???? ???????. ? ??????? ??? ???? ???????? ???. #??????? # Cool. Mein ICE aus München hatte 80 Minuten Verspätung. Ich werd jetzt mit ganzen 10 Euro entschädigt. # They say there is a neglible difference in software quality of distributed vs. colocated teams: http://bit.ly/Dn9NR # RT @rands Last Day …
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I’m in Estonia this week. # ?? ????? ????? ????? ? ???????? ???? ?? ????? #??????? # Sky plus FM ?? ??????? ????? ???????????? ????? #??????? # ??????????? ??????? ?????, ??? ? ?????: ???? ?????????? ?????? :). ?? ?????? 3.5, 2.5 ??? 0.05%, ? 1.5% ??? #??????? # Looking at ? in ? and wondering …
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Pedaling 30 km per set is my max. limit. In reality, I don’t sustain it longer than a couple of days, so it’s 26 km on avg. # @JustinAngel Thanks, here is a simple XAML reproducing the problem: http://is.gd/wxsR in reply to JustinAngel # Not everybody is ready to help, but everybody wants to be …
On Quality
“Scope, Time, Price and Quality. Pick any three of those.” You can often hear this principle and see how it is used in real life. More often that not quality is the parameter that is being sacrificed by project stakeholders. And this is really, really shocking. I’ll explain in a minute why, but let me …
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??? ???? ????? ??????????????: http://linorg.ru/pts/pts75.html # Some ideas tweaking W7 UI a little bit: http://vimeo.com/4255076 # An inspirational content editing UI: http://prezi.com This is how a modern RIA CMS should look like. # I never knew HTTP protocol is still evolving. Must hear for every web dev http://www.infoq.com/presentations/mnot-http-status-1108 # Thought-provoking teamwork wisdom by @ChristopherAver http://bit.ly/1adtUP. …