peopleware
knyga tom demarco, timothy lister – peopleware: productive projects and teams yra apie tai, kas svarbiausia visuose projektuose ir kompanijose – žmones. neypatingai stora ir labai lengvai susiskaitanti. teoriškai skirta valdantiems žmones ir darantiems sprendimus, bet puikiai tinka įvairių profilių darbuotojams. bent jau galėsite pabaksnoti savo viršininkams į skyrelius, kai jie darys visiškai žioplas klaidas. man labiausiai patiko, kad susitelkiama ne tik prie klaidų ir įvairių blogybių, bet siūlomi ir konstruktyvūs sprendimai. kiekvieno skyrelio gale autoriai stengiasi surašyti patarimus, kaip darbas galėtų vykti sklandžiau. tokias knygas reiks karts nuo karto vis iš naujo paskaitinėti, kad netyčiomis nesudilbertėtume :)
“nesudilbertėti” – baisiai geras žodis
jo, good knyga, bet vienu momentu perskaites kiekviena skyriu pradejau uzsirasyti pagrindine minti – ju tiek daug, kad vis pamirstu :)
“nesudilbertėti” – naujadaras? ;-)
[...] didelio įspūdžio man ši knyga nepaliko. pirmas patarimas atsidūrusiems beviltiškame projekte – išeikite iš darbo. didžioji knygos dalis aprašo kuo pasižymi ir kaip atsiranda beviltiški projektai. kitoje dalyje labai prabėgomis autorius vardina visokius metodus, kaip tokių projektų išvengti arba juos paversti labiau suvaldomais. galbūt pradedantiems projektų vadovams praverstų aprašomas sveikas protas ir po kiekvienu skyreliu pateikiama bibliografija, bet praktiškai, tai geriau perskaityti kelias knygas apie agile, mythical man-month ir peopleware. [...]
pkmk tmblr
iškarpos iš interneto. sukauptos per tumblr.com servisą. nereguliariai ir neįpareigojančiai.
Holy crap this is an awesome skate video.
Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11 not as victims but as democratic martyrs, “sacrifices on the altar of freedom”? In other words, what if we decided that a certain baseline vulnerability to terrorism is part of the price of the American idea? And, thus, that ours is a generation of Americans called to make great sacrifices in order to preserve our democratic way of life—sacrifices not just of our soldiers and money but of our personal safety and comfort?
In still other words, what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all reasonable precautions, some hundreds or thousands of us may die in the sort of ghastly terrorist attack that a democratic republic cannot 100-percent protect itself from without subverting the very principles that make it worth protecting?
David Foster Wallace (via southpol)
The story goes that a man was upset that his neighbor kids would always play on his lawn and damage it. So he decided to pay each child to play on his lawn. The surprised kids gladly accepted. After a few days the man told them that he could only afford to pay them half of the initial rate. The kids accepted this reduced rate but were less then enthusiastic. After a few more days the man cut his pay to almost nothing and the children were so upset that they left, vowing never to play on his lawn again unless he increased their pay. Problem solved.
Why pay for performance does not work and may impair patient care
Fascinating. As you dive deeper and deeper into what makes a good doctor, it starts looking like we’ll never know. However, I do believe that deinstitutionalizing medicine and bringing back the concept of the neighborhood doctor would do wonders in making people “feel” like they’ve got a good doctor. It’s just a hunch, but I believe in the therapeutic power of good relationships.
The vast majority of doctors are average and above. We should really be worrying about making the bottom rung doctors average doctors.
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Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (MiMOSA Remix)
There’s never been anything like what Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are proposing for their adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower: a television show that crosses over with three movies, using the same cast for both. Can this even work?
Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman’s Dark Tower adaptation: a totally insane mix of TV and movies
That sounds badass. Although I’m not a huge Dark Tower fan, I’d certainly be interested in this kind of project.
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Psy’Aviah - Sweet Hard Revenge (Dead Errant Soul Remix)
from album Eclectric
(i’m certain i have uploaded this song before, but i cannot find it on my tumblr, so it must be my memory making up lies)
But how did, for example, Linux make its way to China? The story that should be told more often is that Helsinki University’s doctoral student Dr. Gong Min upon returning to China in 1996 had 20 diskettes in his luggage containing that moment’s version of Linux. Shortly after that first Linux distro (collection of software) was available in China.
How Linux Got To China And The Nordic Open Source Miracle - ArcticStartup
New Amazon EC2 Micro Instances - New, Low Cost Option for Low Throughput Applications
currently reserved instance of t1.micro for 1 year costs 54$. i don’t know the performance characteristics of t1.micro, but this could be cheaper/better than shared hosting for some problems.
krau 2006.04.10 09:02
as irgi rekomenduoju :)