10 Signs That Telecommuting Isn’t for You. Among the signs listed in this TechRepublic article from January: you fall prey to distractions, you can’t sustain enough proactive contact with the office, you can’t function without a lot of structure, you hate missing out on collaborative opportunities and your manager can’t or won’t manage remotely. You [...]
If you’re a reader of Coding Horror — and if you’re a programmer or aspire to become one, you should be — you’re probably aware that its author Jeff Atwood recently left his job to work on his own projects. Today he announced what one of those projects is: StackOverflow.com, a joint effort with Joel “Joel on Software” Spolsky.
The folks at Flickr have announced the opening of code.flickr.com, which bills itself as “Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community”. Among other things, you’ll find the Flickr DevBlog, browse their open source code either via the ticket tracker or their public SVN repository, hack the Uploadr, and discuss the Flickr API in the forums.
And to think that it’s Apple that gets associated with the term “Reality Distortion Field”: here’s an internal Microsoft video featuring a faux Bruce Springsteen band singing about how the Vista sales team “saw lots of sales” can expect to see even more now that SP1 is out. I also show some other equally painful Microsoft Windows-related videos.
Palestinian Girls, Dating and the Mobile Phone: danah boyd points to a paper titled Playing With Fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel [PDF, 92K]. It looks at how mobile phone alters social dynamics, relationships, and the construction of gender in Palestine, where “boys give their girlfriends phones [...]
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