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Affected by what you say

3 Jul 2011

It’s too overwhelming to remember that at the end of every computer is a real person, a lot like you, whose birthday was last week, who has three best friends but nobody to spoon at night, and who is personally affected by what you say.

Derek Sivers from Anything You Want

Just finished Derek Siver's new book. Found his take on running a business very humbling and honest.

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Sherlock on theorising

2 Jul 2011

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

We can learn a lot from Sherlock Holmes.

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Start with a warning

1 Jun 2011

Start with a warning

While creating a new google group I was directed to the newly formed group page. I was pleasantly greeted by a warning and disclaimer that a feature that I have yet to use will be deprecated in a few months.

I wonder if it would have taken them much more time to add some logic to only display this if a) the group has used this functionality and b) it’s not a brand new group.

Additionally, if I click on the “Download Pages” link… my browser happily downloads a zip file, which contains an empty index.txt file.

…it’s unfortunate that they’re deprecating this useful functionality.

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Quality Assurance

25 May 2011

Quality Assurance

While wrapping up an iteration for a client, the team was caught testing out one of the new video chat features.

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It's the little things

30 Mar 2011

It's the little things

In preparation for leaving the country for a few months, I’ve been canceling a few of my subscriptions. As I was about to cancel my Netflix subscription, I was prompted with this screen, which gave me the option to put my account on hold versus cancel it. It’s the little things like this that impress me.

…now if I could only do that with my gym membership and phone plan.

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Goodbye Pearl...

26 Mar 2011

Goodbye Pearl...

We’re definitely going to miss having the basketball court across the street. However, we’re moving on to bigger adventures!

(Eric shoots… Carlos watches)

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