Sapere Aude
Month: March 2008
If your start-up can only succeed by being a sweatshop, your idea is simply not good enough. Go back to the drawing board and come up with something better that can be implemented by whole people, not cogs.
what a bunch of nonsense. if you want to be a lifestyle business like 37signals, go right ahead with the 9to5ers. elsewhere, they are toxic.
This isn’t just an innovative approach to software testing and workflow visualization. It’s also a radical statement about business process transparency. For most of us, most of the time, business systems are black boxes whose internal workings we can only discern in the outcomes of our (often painful) interactions with them. But what if you could find out, before pressing the Save button, what’s going on in that black box? And what if your way of finding out wasn’t by reading bogus documentation, but instead by probing the system itself using its own test framework?
A message sent to all Defense Department bases and installations around the country late last week told officials to not allow the popular mapping Web site from taking panoramic views inside the facilities.
the ‘national security’ windbags out in force
they forgot to add the mapping market leader. curious
car sales in Japan are down 31% since the peak in 1990, and not only because of stagnant population growth. The newest generation of would-be buyers, just doesn’t think cars are all that necessary
sales down 31%. excellent!
former ms research project, thousands of geotagged photos. no feeds though, lame.
Hey look, people are finally noticing that Yelp sells review placement. They called us a few months back with the usual shakedown request. Apparently you get a call once you have more than N hits. If you pay them a monthly fee, you get to put your “favorite” review at the top, get better search result listings, and get to delete “unfair” reviews about your business.
The yelp backlash begins. While their shakedown is silly and sad, crappy reviews are a problem that all sites have.
It is surprising that it took all the way to #40 to call out Apple products. Initially, we were planning for an entire week on Apple products, but that would just be over kill. Plain and simple, white people don’t just like Apple, they love and need Apple to operate. On the surface, you would ask yourself, how is that white people love a multi-billion dollar company with manufacturing plants in China, mass production, and that contributes to global pollution through the manufacture of consumer electronic devices? Simple answer: Apple products tell the world you are creative and unique. They are an exclusive product line only used by every white college student, designer, writer, English teacher, and hipster on the planet.
so true. i hate apple.
MMO game for Google Earth. Explore the world as you collect gold, fight evil monsters, and try to collect the crystals that are guarded in major cities across the planet.
I have noticed this too, and it makes Python libraries very tedious to use.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 