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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Good designers ask questions
“Good morning to everyone”, said Tim, smiling at the front of the table. “Before we start, we’d like to ask you to hold your questions until after each presentation. Each pitch is about ten minutes.” “I can’t do that”, said … Continue reading
New York City
One doesn’t have to live long in NYC to understand one of the non-obvious benefits – the ability to completely disappear into anonymity as an individual if you really need to. It’s quite easy to lose oneself, in a good … Continue reading
Django and starting with an empty file
Luke Plant pointed out that Python, in contrast to Java and C#, makes templates unnecessary most of the time. In Java, a minimal program has a class definition and a method definition. In Python, the minimal template is an empty … Continue reading
Quirky Buildings; Quirky Java
I love NYC. I visited for a week, and found the experience absolutely amazing. There is so much to see and do. The best parts of the experience are meeting people and just walking around. Central Park is beautiful, and … Continue reading
How Many Startup Employees Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
Dharmesh Shaw posted a humor piece to his excellent blog at OnStartups.com. I thought the part for strategy type was the funniest (particularly because I’ve had a strategy type for a supervisor before): Strategy Type: Forget the light bulb. We … Continue reading
