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Who (Doesn’t) Recruit the Best Computer Science graduates? « Imran On Tech
“I think this is basically because quite a bit of the work (in huge software projects) is grunt work. And if smart people are asked to do grunt work, they’ll just give you the finger and leave.”
(tags: programming recruiting work management)

The Lazarus Philosophy: The [...]

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CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
(tags: video screencasts tools applications download film free)

kanYe West : Blog
New York magazine interviewed [...]

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BFI | Education | Conferences | Watch This!
An alphabetical list of the ten most recommended films for children to see.
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Levite Chronicles
I mean, you have pictures of how you think I should act. And I don’t live up to your pictures. But that doesn’t make me less me. It just means I don’t fit your picture of me.
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How to get RSS into Excel: Google docs for analysing online buzz | Distilled blog
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Coding Horror: The First Rule of Programming: It’s Always Your Fault
An essential part of being a humble programmer is realizing that whenever there’s a problem with the code you’ve written, it’s always your fault. This is aptly summarized in The Pragmatic Programmer as “Select Isn’t Broken”
(tags: pragmatic programming NB)

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
The [...]

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The End of Wealth | PickTheBrain
It is wonderful to aspire to wealth, but don’t lose sight of the means of accomplishing it as you go about your journey.
(tags: money life quotes)

12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk | Zen Habits
You probably don’t want to become a Zen monk either, but you can [...]

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YouTube - Food Fight
An abridged history of American-centric warfare…
(tags: animation video youtube politics history food film innovation inspiration)

Coding Horror: Choosing Your Own Adventure
I refuse to become a full-time blogger. I think that’s a cop-out. If I look at the people I respect most in the industry, the people I view as role models– Paul Graham, [...]

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blueprintcss - Google Code
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
(tags: css development framework design html blogging wordpress webdesign web2.0 themes templates)

Elliot [...]

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EirePreneur: De facto Irish Postcode system from end of March?
GPS Ireland has developed a Post Code System for Ireland which will be available on Garmin SatNav Systems from the end of this month. Users will be able to get their Post Code from a web Mapping service at Irishpostcodes.ie free of charge.
(tags: gps mapping ireland [...]

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http://mashable.com/2008/03/07/slackers-of-web-20-unhappy-with-calacanis/
Buy second monitors for everyone, they will save at least 30 minutes a day, which is 100 hours a year… which is at least $2,000 a year…. which is $6,000 over three years. A second monitor cost $300-500 depending on which one you get. That means you’
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TED | Talks | Alan Kay: [...]

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