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If we can’t soil our underwear and still get full value when we bring it back to the store, haven’t the terrorists already won? Davenetics

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Yesterday, Matt noted that companies should give off the Friday before a 3 day weekend instead of the Monday. So, instead of Saturday, Sunday, Monday, you’d have Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
His reasoning is that the Friday before a 3 day weekend is always, uh, less productive because you’re anticipating the 3 day weekend. I think he’s […]

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In this tip you saw that the only safe way to test that Strings have the same value is with the equals() method. If you work with Strings that have the same value, then it might be worth interning them into the constants pool. That way you can make a quicker check using the == […]

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Ted Leung has some interesting excerpts from DeMarco’s Slack.

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eWeek has an interesting article (“Finding Middle Ground in Office Use of Collaboration Tools”) that lists several collaborative, bottom-up software tools. The approach is interesting because it takes on two perspectives: (1.) the IT department, who’s not controlling the installation and use of these things (hence, “bottom-up” instead of “top-down”), and, (2.) the end users […]

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