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Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:44 PM

How many people do you represent?

In my earlier discussion on why 100% utilisation is not maximum efficiency , I alluded to the fact that a rejected customer, or a customer with a bad experience, will tell other potential customers that you never get to see. This reminded me that there...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:45 AM

Couldn't have done that at Microsoft

Today, another reminder of things I couldn't have done at Microsoft. Last night, I rushed home from work in time to take my kid to his Webelos den meeting. There, we worked on his Pinewood Derby car. He's been sick most of last week and weekend, so he...
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:17 PM

I'm a developer - I don't do operations.

Okay, so there's a point that Larry has here, in referring to Dare's posts 1 and 2 - that operations and development are two separate skills. [ Joe refers to it , too] I've suggested for a long time that developers should spend some time on technical...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:44 PM

How hard do you want to make this?

So, I'm beta testing Outlook 2007, and it's got some really pretty "ribbons" that indicate that they've gone to great lengths to improve the user interface. Today, I'm creating a distribution list from a number of people that have emailed me. This should...
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