Pay vs. Performance and self actualization.
You see more of these types of cultures in start-up because they are open to new technologies, ways of thinking, and generally are more accepting of change.
The traditional review and evaluation process is just so damn defensive in nature. Bad performance evaluations processes are worse then not doing them at all. Honestly I’ve never be a part of a self evaluation process that seems constructive and genuine.
28 Hour Day
For me this would be the ideal way to live. I know it would be a little bizarre but it’d get 4 extra hours to each day!
Come hell or NYC BeerFest I’m getting it up before I go tomorrow because I want to keep track of all the beers I’m going to drink. I’ve made sure the database has all the Breweries from the United States and a few from outside of the US. You will still need to add individual beers before you rate the beer.
Twitter login or register with BeerFingers
Mobile version
http://beerfingers.com/m/
I found this on the Business of Software Blog and I think it’s a very compelling way to think about software.
“Focus on what makes the user better”
“Give your users SuperPowers”
“Focus on what the user does, not what you do” - Kathy Sierra
“Help $TYPE_OF_PERSON be awesome at $THING” - Joel’s Spolsky’s Version
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
Here’s my rough outline from my video discussion. Enjoy and please ask questions! And visit HappyHerbivore.com
Yahoo Developer Network: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
Wordpress is great but the addition of many plug-ins will slow down your website considerably. I’m going to post a few videos about the website redesign and you should expect the first video in the next few days.
I think it’s important to try to introduce all American’s to the term “Security Theater.”
Security theater has been defined as ostensible security measures which have little real influence on security whilst being publicly visible and designed to demonstrate to the lesser-informed that countermeasures have been considered. Security theater has been related to and has some similarities with superstition. source: Wikipedia
Basically not allowing people to use e-book readers, ipods, laptops, and blankets during any point in the flight is not going to make us safer. It’s time to file complaints with the TSA and airlines to let them know these measure will not make us safer. I also recommend contacting the White House and letting our president know that we want real measure and not puppetry. Lets elevate individuals such as Bruce Schneier who can make effective and actionable change to security without wasting money on BS measures. Read Bruce’s discussion of this debacle in the New Yorker.
TSA contact informationPhone: 1-866-289-9673
E-mail: TSA-ContactCenter@dhs.gov
Edit: I've since switched back to OpenDNS after performing long term ping test to both google dns and opendns servers. On average over several days, OpenDNS pings were on average 3-4ms faster at about 9ms.
My home network is switching from OpenDNS to Google Public DNS (http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/). Because faster is better when it comes to the internet. I don’t know for sure that using Google Public DNS will be faster but it’s worth trying something new.
Speed on the Internet is proportional higher the lower your latency so Google locates their data centers across the global and uses anycast routing to send users to the geographically closest data center. They are heavily using caching and prefetching to improve the performance of this system. Get more geek details here.
How easy are these IPs to remember?
