Good article on operations as a competitive advantage. Here’s a quote:
The example above is the tale of two Web 2.0 startups scaling to 20 systems during their first three months. The first team starts writing software and installing systems as they go, waiting to deal with the “ops stuff” until they have an [...]
Happy Birthday to xmonad. One year old today.
We have an Infrant ReadyNAS NV at work, and it recently died. Rather, its power supply died. It proved to be all but impossible to buy a new power supply for this thing. Hoping to find a clue, I checked the ReadyNAS forums, and found this thread. It turns out a series of these devices, [...]
Euler Project problems can be addictive. This one gave me fits.
If a box contains twenty-one coloured discs, composed of fifteen blue discs and six red discs, and two discs were taken at random, it can be seen that the probability of taking two blue discs, P(BB) = (15/21)×(14/20) = 1/2.
The next such arrangement, [...]
Secrets is a very nice preference pane that lets you tweak all sorts of Mac application settings. It is open source, and driven by an online database, making it easy to add new tweaks as they are discovered. By the author of of the indispensable Quicksilver; need I say more?
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