Monthly Archives: August 2006

Programming design style

Someone needs to come up with a slick name for “designed to fail during test instead of production” or for the more common “soft” type of programming. When we write code, we assume we screwed up somewhere, an assumption based … Continue reading

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Afghanistani mountain village ponders Microsoft business tactics

From Rory Stewart’s book the places in between about his absurd/wonderful walk accross Afghanistan in 2002: That night we stopped in Dahan-e-Rezak, Dr. Habidullah’ mothers village. This was my first night in a tribal hill village. … Everyone in Rezak … Continue reading

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