Dave Winer: I announced here on Scripting News that the final RSS 2.0 spec was out. But! — no one had a problem with it. I guess we were ready to go to the next stage, with a clear way forward. And RSS would go on to eat the world, to steal a phrase from a well-known tech pioneer. I started …
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Dan McKinley: The problem with “best tool for the job” thinking is that it takes a myopic view of the words “best” and “job.” Your job is keeping the company in business, god damn it. And the “best” tool is the one that occupies the “least worst” position for as many of your problems as …
Wi-Fi 6’s Claims Are Real
In tech, it’s hard to discern marketing buzz from factual data. After struggling for months to get a reliable Wi-Fi performance at home through the use of different equipment, software optimization, setting tweaking, etc., all problems went away with a single device: Amplifi Alien with support for Wi-Fi 6. Here’s a good review of the …
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Patrick Collison: Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. Inspiring examples from many different industries and types of entities. Motivated people can do almost anything. ∞Permalink
Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby →
David Heinemeier Hansson: Everything I’ve talked about so far is infrastructure we’d run and pay for regardless of our programming language or web framework. Whether we run on Python, PHP, Rust, Go, C++, or whatever, we’d still need databases, we’d still need search, we’d still need to store files. So let’s talk about what we …
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When did work-life balance become such a bad thing? →
DHH: The term work-life balance has taken a beating lately. It seems to be a favorite punching bag for grandstanding about what you really need is integration or that balance is a mirage anyway. Wat? Balance simple means that each portion of the system has a sustainable weight which keeps the composition in harmony. Going …
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Roadblocks vs. Speed bumps →
Rob Walling: As a founder you can choose to look at an obstacle as something that keeps you from moving forward (a roadblock), or as something that slows you down for a minute as you continue along your path (a speed bump). […] Roadblocks put stress on your mind. Stress on your body. Stress on …
I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles →
The most common and controversial question asked about Skittles seems to be whether all five flavors are indeed uniformly distributed, or whether some flavors are more common than others. The following figure shows the distribution observed in this sample of 468 packs. ∞Permalink
Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale →
Paragraf is producing graphene ‘wafers’ and graphene-based electronic devices, which could be used in transistors, where graphene-based chips could deliver speeds more than ten times faster than silicon chips; and in chemical and electrical sensors, where graphene could increase sensitivity by a factor of more than 30. The company’s first device will be available in …
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Why Strategic Planning is Not →
Bill Barnett: […]the real lesson of the Soviet experiment has been lost on us, and the corporations of the world should take note: Planning doesn’t work. Corporations must and do plan, of course. Their leaders call these plans “strategic” to give them gravitas. But typically strategic plans are just budgets and goals. Budgets and goals are …