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An American Muslim speaks on the hypocracy. Oh, and christianty has it’s share of hyprocacy.

Joel on Software

The best advice I can offer:

If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.

Pick your core business competencies and goals, and do those in house. If you’re a software company, writing excellent code is how you’re going to succeed. Go ahead and outsource the company cafeteria and the CD-ROM duplication.
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If you have customers, never outsource customer service.

So if customers are so important, and let’s face it they are what pays the bills, why does everyone hate them so? Why are customer support folks paid shit? And why is it one of the first things outsourced to “control costs”? The world, all 7 billion customers, want to know.

rc3 has an idea

There seems to be a lot of wrangling going on right now about what sort of government Afghanistan will have once the Taliban have been removed from power. My suggestion is this: a government composed entirely of women. I’m actually fairly serious here.

Good one, it will not happen but would still be a good idea. Hell would probably be a good idea for most countries.

Take a gander of a fozbaca search on images.google.com.

Death of Progeny
As of October 1,2001 Progeny has ceased development on its Progeny Debian product; there will be no further releases of the product, and all direct sales of the product will end October 15, 2001.
[via slashdot]

Pigdog Journal (Mr. Bad’s List)

1. That won’t scale.
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Ha, ha…

DVD Database code, something for work.

Way to go Apple, their Statement on the Draft W3C Patent Policy for royalty-free liscense.

CGI-RPC is a proposed standard for calling a remote procedure. It uses the CGI spec for all calls. Consequently the spec is almost completely concerned with the format of the returned data, not with the calling convention. This addresses the one limitation of CGI that it does not structure the returned data in a form that is guranteed to be machine readable.

OS X World – 10.1 In Depth
The “Mac-ness” of Mac OS X: “The legendary ease of use of the Macintosh” in a fight for its life against “the power of UNIX”