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How To Get Fired

Posted in Management, sports, tagged , , , , , , , on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Mike Shannahan, former coach of the Denver Broncos, held a press conference today to discuss his firing. This is one damn fine way (gracious, strategic, experienced) to handle getting fired. Of particular note is Shannahan’s grasp of what it means to “deserve” something. On if he deserved to be let go “The thing about deserving [...]

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Stellarium – Open Source Star Gazing

Posted in astronomy, open source, science, software, tagged , , , , , , on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I can’t remember if I posted about Stellarium before.  Sorry for a repost if I have. Stellarium is one of the coolest open source projects out there.  In fact, I’m not sure how good a commercial version of this would actually be.  Some things are just better as academic and labor of love efforts. If [...]

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Agile – is it something?

Posted in product development, programming, software, tagged , , , on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Here we find yet another lively discussion questioning whether Agile Programming is real. Let’s just tackle the various claims and arguments head on. The behavior involved and contingencies bringing about leaner development are real.  The name “Agile” is marketing.   The recent economic turbulence reinforces quicker time to market and lower costs.  However, the evolution of [...]

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What Is Functional Programming?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a nice intro to functional programming on Dr. Dobbs. In any functional programming language, you are likely to encounter these features: * First-class functions, or higher-order functions: Functions can serve as arguments and results of functions. * Recursion as the primary tool for iteration. * Heavy use of pattern matching, although technically it is [...]

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CNN and Evil – Snivil…

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, information theory, politics, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary.

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Junk Science of “Evil”

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, health care, human rights, religion, science, social science, speculation, tagged , , , on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Here we see another example where people are looking for a phenomenon that doesn’t exist – EVIL. Do people harm others in the real world and experimental settings?  sure. Does that constitute evil? no. The conclusion of the studies never mention evil. “What the experiment shows is that the person whose authority I consider to [...]

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SocialMode’s Hockey Stick Moment?

Posted in musings, search, social networks, software, traffic, tagged , , , on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Could socialmode.com be the next breakout on the Interwebs? Be part of the dream!  Comment!  Suggest! Link to us!  Put us on Digg! hahahah! Is kinda nice to see some traffic, even though all the money goes to WordPress.com right now. Oh well.

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Glam Is First But More To Follow

Posted in economics, finance, metrics, online advertising, speculation, tagged , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ah, Ad Networks! Glam gives us this juicy insight into what’s happening over in ad network world. It’s not going to be a fun 2009. Despite the slower economy, Q4 was the strongest quarter we have had—we will end the year in a triple digit ad revenue growth rate year over year, and also very [...]

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Obama and Rick Warren – Separation of Church and State, Anyone???

Posted in politics, religion, tagged , , , on December 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »

So now we’re going to have a month of debate about Rick Warren and what he stands for. Warren has been described as the next Billy Graham, an evangelical leader with a moderate reputation and mass-market appeal — although instead of massive open-air rallies and an out-sized television presence, Warren focused on forging partnerships with [...]

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LinkedIn To What?

Posted in analysis of behavior, product development, software, speculation, traffic, vertical media, web 2.0, tagged , , , on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

LinkedIn has been a long time darling in blog discussions, VC conversations and strategery sessions. Techcrunch brings us news of their latest shuffling of the exec deck. It’s one of these media ventures that seems like such a great idea but really isn’t.  It has no growth potential left and is a media product that [...]

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