Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Deliver fast.
Develop code with tests first and deliver only code 100% covered with tests.
Work in small iterations (biweekly, weekly or even less)
Scaleable - you may test with one-week part-time contract and scale as your ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Neurogenesis is the process of creation of new neurons in the brain. That literary keeps your brain fresh new.
NY Times run an article on recent mice brain study. Most of article is devoted to the role of aerobic exercise, i. e. running. They sum up with rather interesting and though-provoking ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
There's a baby inside each adult. And every baby likes to play games.
How this matters to a startup? Well, if you give a potential user a toy - he'll stick to it. And if playing games with this toy would also do something useful to him (e.g. ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Recently some feeds grabbed by chytach (and parsed by feedparser.py) started to traceback:
Failed parsing http://del.icio.us/tag/gtd with exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: {'object': '/tag/\xe6\x97\xb6\xe9\x97\xb4\xe7\xae\xa1\xe7\x90\x86', 'end': 6, 'encoding': 'ascii', 'args': ('ascii', '/tag/\xe6\x97\xb6\xe9\x97\xb4\xe7\xae\xa1\xe7\x90\x86', 5, 6, 'ordinal not in range(128)'), 'start': 5, 'reason': 'ordinal not in range(128)'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/akhavr/chytach/bin/feedupdate.py", line 97, in processfeed
...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Andrew Leonard in his Salon article mocks science publishers that began PR and lobbying campaign to strain free access to publications resulted from (US) government-funded research (that's nearly all fundamental research, as far as I understand). In particular they stated in their press release:
Policies are being proposed that threaten to ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Robert Roy Britt at LiveScience writes:
The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.
There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, [researcher] Lawrence Rudnick [of ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I have been involved in more startup projects that I have fingers (and I have them all - you may check). Most of them rot.
Each time I start excited but as time passes, I see the pattern:
Your startup software project is in trouble, if
it is ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
It appears that in 2005 The World Bank conducted a study about the structure of the capital in different countries:
The World Bank study defines natural capital as the sum of cropland, pastureland, forested areas, protected areas, and nonrenewable resources (including oil, natural gas, coal, and minerals). Produced capital is what ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Ask the Wizard yesterday:
The point is that “build it and they will come” isn’t true. You need to build it, and then show them exactly how it can be used, and then show them several explicit examples of why it’s powerful, and then they might come.
This means that I, ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Got the wonderful blog post on BostonVcBlog.
Entrepreneurs are recently famous for sulkily observing that the VCs have the cushiest of lives. Unlike entrepreneurs who live and die by quarterly and annual milestones, VCs get paid generous management fees whether they seem to actually perform or not. In the ...
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