This happens more often than you'd think -
LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader that Return of the Jedi Hasn’t Made a Profit!?
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…I thought it would be useful if I explained what a nerd was. What I came up with was: someone who doesn’t expend any effort on marketing himself.
A nerd, in other words, is someone who concentrates on substance. So what’s the connection between nerds and technology? Roughly that you can’t fool mother nature. In technical matters, you have to get the right answers. If your software miscalculates the path of a space probe, you can’t finesse your way out of trouble by saying that your code is patriotic, or avant-garde, or any of the other dodges people use in nontechnical fields…
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As I wrote in Hackers & Painters, employees seem to be most productive when they’re paid in proportion to the wealth they generate.
” — Paul Graham, in his essay What The Bubble Got Right.Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for Happiness - Hans Villarica - Life - The Atlantic -
It seems his pyramid is pretty flat after all.
Beatles mockumentary from the year 3126
“…Timeboxing can be a favorable type of contracting for projects in which the deadline is the most critical aspect and when not all requirements are completely specified up front.”
“The system is insolvent if no one knows what to do next except repeat the insanity till the next bubble blows. That’ll be the one, the big one.” — Gordon Gekko, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (via taitran)
Comment faire des scénarios de revenus disponibles?
Apple's open standards, but only on their products -
“Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™….”
Ground Zero: Exaggerating the Jihadist Threat -
National myopia poses a bigger challenge to the U.S.’s long-term stability than terrorism ever will.
Trop d’antibiotiques dans la viande -
Santé Canada aux consommateurs: “Incitez les agriculteurs à ne donner des antibiotiques à leurs animaux qu’en cas de nécessité.”