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Archive for February, 2004

Design + Code

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

From the Ask Joel forums:

I think that the reality is that design and code are one - and every really succesful, productive software house I’ve ever worked for operates like this. Those that disrespect mere ‘coding’ and have a rank of higher paid, non-coding ‘architects’ who pass the code on to cheap minions struggle. […]

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Wipro CEO Interview, Innovation, CMM Level 5, Input Bias, Workspace

Friday, February 27th, 2004

eWeek Interview with Wipro CEO - interviews with offshore execs are always interesting. They’re becoming less defensive in response to the usual “you’re taking away jobs” question/claim, instead suggesting that it’s not their fault, but the fault of the country that’s leaking jobs, for example,

To every one of the millions of unemployed people in the […]

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Meetings

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

In this detailed picturephone fote you can see (From left to right), JP, Chip, Khwaja, and James.

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From the Clown Desk: “Ring of Fire,” Ass Problems

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song Ring of Fire to promote haemorrhoid-relief products.

Article.

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More Coderbonics

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Here’s one we like around the office, a kind of phrase…
“Good luck with no fuckin’ head” - an impossible, esp. comically so, situation or problem. For example, “Folkenaugle says this 2,000 page report, with charts, has to be done by COB Thursday. Yeah, good luck with no fuckin’ head.”
This saying, of course, comes from Barton […]

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