Autor: Tim Strehle

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Joel Spolsky – Headcount: „If everybody in the world knew about your software and was encouraged to evaluate it, the number that would buy it would be (Earth population) x Quality. […] Double the quality, and the same sales effort yields double the revenue. […] The offshoring that does happen is strongly biased to custom…

Tim Bray – The Listening Engine: „I’ve come to expect, of my technical and business peers, that they will be well-informed to an extent that would have been very rare even a couple of decades ago. Can you skip this and still make a difference in the world? I don’t know, but it does seem…

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Shalin Shekhar Mangar – Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix: „According to a blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and CTO, FAST Bjørn Olstad, the 2010 products will be the last to have a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Being involved in Apache Solr and the newly formed Lucene Connectors Framework…

Matt Linderman on the Apple iPad at Signal vs. Noise – Computers shouldn’t make people feel like idiots: „For those of us surrounded by the minutiae of computers all day, it’s easy to forget there’s a world of people out there who just don’t get it. And it’s not their fault. It’s ours. Apple has…

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – It’s not a promise, it’s a guess: „Since nobody likes to be a failure, they’ll indulge in risky behavior to avoid it, like burning the midnight oil and checking in bad code with shanty or no tests. Rushing to meet your estimate promise once or twice might…

Edd Dumbill at O’Reilly Radar – The iPad is real-life social: „After reading one such blog post saying that the iPad was antisocial, because it didn’t have SMS or the ability to run IM in the background, it struck me this was a restricted view of what it means to be social. The iPad is…

Wilson Rothman at Gizmodo – The iPad Is The Gadget We Never Knew We Needed: „The iPad has shortcomings, but they only betray Apple’s caution, just like what happened with iPhone No. 1. Now every 15-year-old kid asks for an iPhone, and the ones that don’t get them get iPod Touches. We can sit here…

Stephen Fry – iPad About: „Like iPhone 1.0 […] iPad 1.0 is still fantastic enough in its own right to be classed as a stunningly exciting object, one that you will want NOW and one that will not be matched this year by any company. […] And being Apple it hasn’t been released without (you…