My Top Ten Tips on how to become a Rockstar Programmer item 11.dont drink too much coffee
webMD:Quit Caffeine While Pregnant sugary soft drink is bad for health.
envy derives from a complex cocktail of competitiveness, emotional insecurity, and situational dissatisfaction. Four factors favor its flourishing at the office: a highly competitive workplace culture, an emotional dunce of a boss, favoritism in our families of origin, and, of course, exceptional achievement that ticks off everybody else.
for enviers:If she can do it, write it, sell it, win it, dammit, I can, too!
for envied:suck up to the protection of the powerful or keep their heads down to avoid the potshots of the angry horde.
in gapingvoid.com so what’s a crazy-ass cartoonist in alpine, texas going to do about dell, anyway? November 15, 2008
the only innovations worth making are the ones involving product ideas and product design.
You can't thrill your customers until you thrill yourself first.
in gapingvoid.com marketing as transformation November 21, 2008
your product has to be aligned with your customer's never-ending search to find meaning in his or her own life.
If people like buying your product, it's because its story helps fill in the narrative gaps in their own lives.
Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information to other members of our species. Stories are not just nice things to have, they are essential survival tools.
And yes, the stories we tell ourselves are just as important than the stories we tell other people.
Ergo, marketing is not about selling. Marketing is figuring out where your product stands in relation to personal narrative.
So where does your product fit into other people's narrative? How does telling your story become a survival tool for other people? If you don't know, you have a marketing problem.
Narrative gaps. It's all about the narrative gaps.
We find meaning, we fill in the narrative gaps, when we transform ourselves. When we transform from unemployed single mother to world's richest woman [Like what happened to Harry Potter's JK Rowling]. When we go from a size-12 dress to a size-6 dress. When we land our first real job promotion. When we go from single horny guy to happily married father of six. This need to constantly transform ourselves, from one state of being to another, never goes away. We are fluid creatures. We crave re-invention like we crave food or sex. And when we lose the capacity to transform ourselves, when we get stuck in a rut, is when life's meaning starts to dry up.
The people who inspire us the most are the people who aim higher than the limitations imposed upon them. Triumph over adversity; it's the oldest story in the world.
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11699
For an even better example, there are a couple papers on something called "grey-box" testing that came out of UW-Madison that caught my attention when I was looking at grad schools to apply to. Some of the same people worked on both, and they ar both doing grey-box examinations of the storage subsystem. One of them is that they came up with a method and a program that implements that method for figuring out properties of a RAID system. By measuring latencies and transfer rates and such, they are able to determine what RAID level is running, what striping pattern is being used (for instance, for successive blocks on RAID 5, is the parity block on drives 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1 or 1-2-3-4-5 or what), etc. We did a similar thing for an intro assignment in my OS class -- we were measuring block sizes of the file system, readahead behavior, and cache behavior. A second paper was describing some firmware that could sit on a disk itself and determine, from the pattern of writes and reads, which blocks represented data blocks, which represented inode blocks, which were journal blocks, and such so that the drive could apply different treatment to each sort. (I forget their suggestions for what you might want to do with the different blocks though, and can't look at the paper because I don't yet have Acrobat Reader installed because this is a fresh system.) If those papers aren't about computers, I don't know what is. -- EvanED
What do you do if the location for your workplace does not allow any memory devices such as thumbdrive, portable hdd, sd cards?
Smuggle with paper. A typical A4(1682 × 2378mm) page can print a lot of data. Physically 2 side, but if you add a bit of colors, the dimension increases. An example use of this is at Northe/Northey History Part II
A binary QR code can store Max. 2,953 bytes at 150 modules per inch.
25 by 25 module matrix is 12.5 mm (0.5") square
177 by 177 = 7x 25module=7*12.5mm=87.5mm
1682/87.5=19
2378/87.5=27
subtract printer margin = 17x25modules
data storage at 425modules*2953bytes=1,255,025bytes
1 MB of text on one side. A very slow sneaker net. But hay, one MB worth of zip text is a lot.
Add a color dimension to the qr code and see how many layers you can overlay it. 3 more channels via RGB (watched National Treasure?) or CMY.
As you noticed, I didnt solve the inital problem of how are you going to bring the software to print the QR code above? via mime in email? writing the software if you are a programmer?
I once came across an article. You can create a debugger using copy con and the alt key and entering a list of alt numbers. After building up the debugger, the author proceed to code the virus via debugger (my memory is bit fuzzy) Not the very first, but nonetheless demostrates the idea example.
haha, I seriously doubt anyone will use the method above. But kind of cool for me to have this insight. Years of tree saving efforts pays off.
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Transactional analysis was the beginning of my readings on psychology, self-help and understanding of oneself.
"Social Gestures beget Social Objects."
Social Networks form around Social Objects, not the other way around.
The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that "node" in the social network, is what we call the Social Object.
anthropologists call “Object-Centerd Sociality”
"Social Marker"
As with all things, the REAL value comes from the human relationships that are built AROUND the social object, not the object in itself.
Put really simply, the Purpose-Idea is the "What For?" of a business, or any kind of community. What exists to change (or protect) in the world, why employees get out of bed in the morning, what difference the business seeks to make on behalf of customers and employees and everyone else? BTW this is not "mission, vision, values" territory - it's about real drives, passions and beliefs. The stuff that men in suits tend to get embarrassed about because it's personal. But it's the stuff that makes the difference between success and failure, because this kind of stuff brings folk together in all aspects of human life.
Real drives, passions and beliefs. Exactly.
Why is something like this potentially valuable to a business? Simply put, if you believe something passionately enough, for long enough, articulate it well enough, and your actions are aligned, credible and consistent with your belief for long enough, it's just a matter of time before other people start believing it, too.
Organizations change when you give something a name. If it has a name, your peers can measure it. If it has a name,they can alter it. If it has a name, they can talk about it. And if it has a name, they can eliminate it. --The Big Moo, Edited by Seth Godin
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