Tag: Misc

Jan 15, 2005 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Total sales of unpopular items often exceed total sales of popular items. Consider some stats from a recent article in Wired magazine. The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 …

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Innumeracy

Jan 15, 2005 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

<mathGeek> The Associated Press (AP) quotes (evidently without analysis) numbers from National Coalition of the Homeless. They claim that there are 3.5 million homeless in the US. …

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We hired our first 1099 employee

Jan 14, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Well, we did it! After much hand wringing and deep conversations, we decided to hire our first 1099 employee. Gary Gumbiner has agreed to work for the next few months on a project for …

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Gmail Bug Exposes E-mails to Hackers

Jan 14, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Whoops! I've got a Gmail account! Interesting problem. Google was inadvertantly placing random emails into the “Reply To” field of emails. That's right. Whole …

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Hard Drive access is SLOW But I had no idea it was this slow

Dec 23, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Simon Meacham has a wonderful post on performance implications, and profiling applications. When I talk about the importance of caching I often talk about how slow hard drive access is. …

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Recognition

Dec 23, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Scott Duffy sometimes writes a bit about VSTS. Not often, but enough for me to keep checking back to his blog often. His last post had something that just struck me. He puts it like …

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New Microsoft Patch Blocks Firefox Downloads

Dec 23, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

"Microsoft Corp. today released a new security patch for its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser which prevents users from accidentally or intentionally downloading the new free, open-source Firefox …

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