What did predict economic success was a willingness to take risks. By contrast, the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers.
From the book Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation, by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes. Sounds like an intresting read.
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Stole an idea Eric Kidd over at RandomHacks uses for his RSS feed. By adding a CSS reference after the inital XML version one gets stylled RSS.
The trick has been applies to the 3 syndication types RSS2, RSS 1.0/RDF and XSS for fozbaca.org. The trick worked on the IE and Phoenix/Mozilla running on my box. Just comment if you have any problems.
Stole an idea Eric Kidd over at RandomHacks uses for his RSS feed. By adding a CSS reference after the inital XML version one gets stylled RSS.
The trick has been applies to the 3 syndication types RSS2, RSS 1.0/RDF and XSS for fozbaca.org. The trick worked on the IE and Phoenix/Mozilla running on my box. Just comment if you have any problems.
JavaIndex.org a directory of Open Source Java apps, libraries and such.
JavaIndex.org a directory of Open Source Java apps, libraries and such.
For some reason Fark seems to love me. Check the
Top 10 of 367 Total Referrers and there are over 8,500 from the forums and almost 450 from the voter comments are something. The traffic seems to all be on December 4th. Since I don’t follow Fark anyone care to enlighten me on just why some are visiting?
For some reason Fark seems to love me. Check the
Top 10 of 367 Total Referrers and there are over 8,500 from the forums and almost 450 from the voter comments are something. The traffic seems to all be on December 4th. Since I don’t follow Fark anyone care to enlighten me on just why some are visiting?
Just a glimpse why government sucks from the soon to be former CIO of Utah.
Here’s the deal: to achieve results, you’ve got to do something. If you do something, you’ll make mistakes. Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. So the only way to reverence process at all costs is to do nothing or, at the very least, proceed with the utmost caution. You’ve probably wondered why government service is so slow. This is the reason why: people are being very careful. They have to be, because any misstep can be deadly.
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog
Similarly I have heard the same thing from those in large corporations, becoming if not already governments unto themselves.
Just a glimpse why government sucks from the soon to be former CIO of Utah.
Here’s the deal: to achieve results, you’ve got to do something. If you do something, you’ll make mistakes. Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. So the only way to reverence process at all costs is to do nothing or, at the very least, proceed with the utmost caution. You’ve probably wondered why government service is so slow. This is the reason why: people are being very careful. They have to be, because any misstep can be deadly.
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog
Similarly I have heard the same thing from those in large corporations, becoming if not already governments unto themselves.
Plug in Your Command Processor Now
This article details the implementation of a tool called the Command Processor. This tool takes a Java object and creates a command-line interface to its public methods.
Intresting idea. Wonder how it would fit into engel’s java shell idea from a couple of years ago?