Aug
23
THINK
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For thirteen years, I took IBM seriously, especially its THINK motto. IBM was right. Thinking was essential. But after a while, I noticed that IBM and its customers often honored thinking, but didn’t practice it. As far as I could tell, little THINK signs on each desk never helped us get software out the door. [...]
Aug
23
A Plan For Spam
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Paul Graham’s campaign against spam. Interestingly, he’s building a Hotmail-esque site where he’ll get to try this out on a wider scale.
Aug
23
The googleTitleSearch macro caches the results each time it searches Google in Radio Userland’s inbuilt database. This means that it doesn’t have to rerun the search every time you publish your blog. However, it also means that the See Also: becomes fixed at the point you publish, which isn’t always what you want - particularly [...]