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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Stack Overflow Thoughts
I received my beta invitation to stackoverflow.com, the discussion form launched by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, some days ago. It has been fun playing around with it. For a beta site, it is highly functional, very fast and noticeably … Continue reading
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Decision Making
There is nothing more puzzling to me about political campaigns than the ever-fluctuating polls. After 18 month of political campaigning, one would think that people would have made up their minds by now. Both the major candidates have significantly differing … Continue reading
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The One Answer Search Engine
With regard to my previous post on market entry barriers, one of my friends (who works in research at a large technology company) pointed out that it is incorrect to say that people are entirely satisfied with search results. Google … Continue reading
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Barriers to Market Entry
The big news a couple of weeks ago was the launch of the Cuil search engine. After receiving its 15 minutes of fame, it seems to have been forgotten by everyone. Every once in a while, a new search engine … Continue reading
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The Gospel of Scott Adams
Reading a Dilbert cartoon or a book by Scott Adams, one is often struck by how closer they are to real life in the business world than more “serious” business books. It is surprising on one level because business books … Continue reading
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Procedural Programming in OO Languages
A common problem found in code reviews of inexperienced programmers is the use of a procedural paradigm of coding even though they are working with an object-oriented language. Typically, the code looks something like class SomeClass { doAction1ToData(some data structure) … Continue reading
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Programmer Test for Interviews
A few months ago, I had derided the use of riddles and quiz in interviews. My reasoning was that they measure the wrong things, not how the person would actually perform in day-to-day work. In my company, we have tried … Continue reading
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Barriers to Receiving Information
In addition to skills and circumstances, success depends significantly on the information you possess. Without having accurate, up-to-date information, you are more likely to make decisions based on assumptions, or plain hope. Not a good situation to be in. Corporations … Continue reading
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