Archive for the ‘Work’ Category
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
I thought of these today. They probably need refinement.
Sean's three rules on teamwork:
Announce success. Listen to other's successes.
Announce failure. Listen to other's failures.
In the absence of clear direction, set your own direction and go. Announce. Listen.
(False) modesty creates tribal knowledge. At the risk of sounding immodest, tell your team members ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
In the absence of an overwhelming need to get something done, do you:
Take extra moments to reflect on your task at hand so as to think of different, perhaps better, ways to do it?
Do it in the "known-quantity" way, regardless of elegance, and move on?
Something in between?
I'd like to think ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Last night, I decided a problem I was having at work wasn't worth solving.
Why?
Because the only algorithm that I could think of at the time was O(N^2), and on a medium to large-sized data set, the processing time was astronomical. I implemented my algorithm, and sure enough, astronomical only began ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Many of you are aware that I carry around a little black box; an electronic device, or "mobular", that I fondly refer to as my electronic "leash." Of course, I'm referring to my BlackBerry, or "Crack"Berry, if you're a snortin' hipster.
Whether you prefer the traditional nomenclature or not, you surely ...
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
From Scott Adams's interactive day:
What did you do to become a paid speaker? Training wise. Also what is your core topic? I mean, do people hire you to just entertaine, spout insperation, or are they non-humorist related?
[Scott Adams] A. I took the Dale Carnegie course. It was amazing. Otherwise it’s ...
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
Apparently Max's dog knows C++ and Scott, James, Cory, and Bucho have a thing for portly penguins. Interesting... I just have a place.
Lest I forget - Steve has a thing for software and beer. Now that's an idea I can get behind!
Seems like it might be high time to revisit ...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
I have no resolution regarding blogging, but all the same, I think I'd like to share a bit more wordage to the world. Perhaps it'll help me put my world into context. I take a lot of value from writing; it helps organize my thoughts and put recent events into ...
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving from my house to yours.
This year, my family experienced the final product of the kitchen at the Pine Crest house as we know it. By this time next year, a new kitchen in a new location and with new appliances shall be the instrument of our cooking. The ...
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Well, I actually blog most of the time over at the Energy Soapbox. You should read what I (and Peter) have to say there!
For some personal news...
Had an abbreviated work schedule (44-48hr/wk) for the last few weeks so I could hang out with Sarah (and one week where I was ...
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Here at Pelco, we use a not-to-be-named source control product. During the normal course of development, I decided to create a branch on a freshly imported source tree. I pressed "OK" to kick off the branch creation, and our source control server promptly died. Here's a little snippet of the ...
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