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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 [...]

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 the [...]