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Dream, or _pipe_dream?

A while ago I quantified how I spent my day. Every. Single. Minute. A good day was about 6hr out of 8hr of work. The other 2hr was spent fluffing about - having coffee, hallway con…

Good coincidence seeing this here, as my partner and I are about to play a game while our baby (hopefully!) takes a nap. We call it our 'team bonding activity'.

It really depends on how big of a hackathon you are running. In the previous year I have organised one ~50 person hackathon, and one ~200 person (part of a larger 1500 person event…

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This was an interesting way to visualise the arms database. Some patterns are interesting: What appears to be almost 50% of Russia's exports go to India, while what appears to be a…

Your product looks like it will be a neat service. Do you intend to also have an API to contribute data (in addition to your "import" tool?)

I have been pondering the op's question for over two years, and this is the route I will probably take. Some websites like TicTrac do a reasonably good job at aggregating your stat…

Agreed. The natural first response is to play politics (not always bad) and escalate via some other back channel, but often times direct confrontation in the right setting is more …

To get into the mindset of the managers, consider skimming James Collins' book "Good to Great". One point to take away is that any leaders in your organisation will appreciate the …

I really like IFTTT. None of my recipes are really all that clever, but they save me money and time, which is why I like IFTTT. I have about 10 recipes searching classified or barg…