More good news… (Taken with Instagram at Children’s Hospital St. Louis)
The difference between the best worker on computer hard-ware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you’re lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it’s at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you’re in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.
Bingo.
A CFO is interviewing candidates for a job as a benefits consultant. He calls the first one, an accountant, into his office and asks, “What’s two plus two?” The accountant says, “Four.” The CFO sends him away, calls an actuary into the room, and asks, “What’s two plus two?” The actuary closes the door, pulls down the blinds, then leans in and whispers, “What do you want to be?” He gets the job.
My new default tone…
Your new ringtone.
Siracusa said so quotes:
“I’m hitting the Fast Forward Scan button three times — LIKE AN ANIMAL — to skip commercials, that’s no way to live! I don’t want to see the commercials scan past me as a series of little fuzzy images!” (ep. 58, min. 92) ∞
Source: merlin
I have a feeling that this will be the longest day of the year. #ipad
The Readability Fallacy — The Brooks Review
Nice article from Ben Brooks about why Readability switched from a business model of funding bloggers to directly competing with services like Instapaper and Read it Later.
I “switched” to Readability for a few weeks to test the service. I love their new iOS apps (especially those fonts!), but I noticed a few things about their service that I didn’t like.
There were issues in how the text was parsed (in some cases it wasn’t parsed at all) and I felt that overall the service was a bit slower than Instapaper. In the end, the main reason for switching back to Instapaper was that Readability offers a very basic service and Instapaper gives me more options for sharing and social news discovery.
