Daily Archives: March 22nd, 2007

Netflix’s Vacation Policy: “Take as Much as You Want”

This San Jose Mercury News piece makes me wonder if they’re looking for a tech evangelist…
When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you’d like. Just make sure your work is done.
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and [...]

Quick, send in the clowns*

Don’t bother, they’re here:
News Corp. and NBC Universal said today that they were creating an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, plus clips that users can modify and share with friends.
The two companies enlisted help from some of Google’s biggest Internet rivals. The News Corp.-NBC Universal partnership has deals with Yahoo Inc., [...]

Send Twitter Messages from the Command Line (Mac OS and Linux)

If you’re like me and Twitter only from a computer, you’re probably annoyed with the slow load time of the Twitter site. Using IM was an option, but as of this writing, the IM system is still down.
If you’re running a Mac or Linux and have curl installed (I believe it’s installed by default on [...]

Wear Them to Your Annual Review

The Valvolo.com online store carries USB warming kneepads. Here’s the copy from the catalog page:
You can have a pair of USB heating gloves when you feel your hands freeze. You can have a pair of USB heating shoes when you feel your feet freeze. However, you will wonder how about the icy knees? Don’t [...]

Andrés Taylor: “Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me”

One of yesterday’s top stories on Reddit was Michael McDonough’s essay, The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School. Here’s a quick run-down of those top ten things:

Talent is one-third of the success equation.
95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.
If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important.
Don’t over-think [...]