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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<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. …
Read more →We hired our first 1099 employee
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 …
Read more →Gmail Bug Exposes E-mails to Hackers
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 …
Read more →Hard Drive access is SLOW But I had no idea it was this slow
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. …
Read more →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 …
Read more →New Microsoft Patch Blocks Firefox Downloads
"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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