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{ Monthly Archives } October 2008

Contributing

Tim has a post where he advises developers to con­trib­ute to open source pro­jects so that hir­ing man­agers will look favour­ably on them. I have some prob­lems with this, as do many of the com­menters on his post. First off, I agree that con­trib­ut­ing to open source pro­jects is admir­able and to be encour­aged. There are, […]

Surreal and Real

The news has been almost uni­formly bad, these last couple of months. What had been com­plaints of too much money chas­ing too few good assets has now turned into the rout of too little money being avail­able to buy any assets, prov­ing yet again that there is no intrinsic value to any­thing other than what […]

Advice to Politicians

With both the Cana­dian and the U.S. elec­tion cam­paigns in full swing, I figured I’d toss my few cents worth into the fray in the form of some advice to politi­cians, or those run­ning their cam­paign. I fully expect it all to be ignored. For the Cana­dians: If your team has lots of exper­i­ence, make […]