Category Archives: Random

Dilbert on purchasing cycles and requirements changes

By Simon Coles | Published: November 10, 2009
Sadly, so very true:
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Ah, little boys and their experiments

By Simon Coles | Published: September 19, 2009
This entry on FailBlog is rather tasteless, but it made me smile. Disregarding the subject matter I’m quite impressed with the quality of the write up!
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US healthcare system, and labour mobility

By Simon Coles | Published: June 10, 2008
Having hired people in Europe and the US, I can absolutely agree with Aaron Swartz in this post on how to promote startups. The healthcare issue in the US is a really big pain in the neck and I can’t help but feel if someone proposed the current system they’d be rightly described as totally nuts. Of course [...]
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RSS, Attention and Flocking Behaviour

By Simon Coles | Published: January 8, 2006
Just noticed this post, which mentions a “Scanning for Patterns” behavior which is a good summary of how I use RSS/Atom/Blogs. There are about 15 feeds that I will read most articles, and then a few hundred other feeds which I will skim read when traveling. I generally only read a post from this group [...]
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tecosystems: The Trouble with Binary Arguments

By Simon Coles | Published: August 20, 2005
tecosystems: The Trouble with Binary Arguments: “binary arguments tend to obscure the fact that in many real world implementations, so-called oppositional technologies will compliment rather than annihilate each other. At the very least, they provide each other with the competition that drives innovation” A very important point – almost all the analysis I’ve seen about ELN [...]
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