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Bon, peut-être que je trouve ça plus intéressant que la normale à cause des cours d’AI, mais bon

When I ask if he will get a CEO to help him out, D’Aloisio says of course, in time. For now he wants to focus his tiny little company on the product. He points out that most founders have a vision of the product and they can see it and when that vision isn’t brought to fruition, it causes irritation. It is one of the reasons he is still obsessive about controlling every aspect of the product. “I want to ensure it is my true vision,” he emphatically states.

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/13/meet-the-internets-newest-boy-genius/

Post intéressant de Tom Preston-Werner à propos des débuts de GitHub :

When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an adventure,” not “wow, I sure felt safe.”

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html

certified jack-of-all-trades t-shirt from mediumblack.ca

The label “jack-of-all-trades but master of none” is normally meant to be derogatory, implying that the labelee lacks the focus to really dive into a subject and master it. But, when your online shopping application is on the fritz and you’re losing orders by the hundreds as each hour passes, it’s the jack-of-all-trades who not only knows how the application’s code works but can also do low-level UNIX debugging of your web server processes, analyze your RDBMS’s configuration for potential performance bottlenecks, and check your network’s router configuration for hard-to-find problems. And, more important, after finding the problem, the jack-of-all-trades can quickly make architecture and design decisions, implement code fixes, and deploy a new fixed system to production.

Extrait tiré de “The Passionate Programmer“

Note : si vous êtes attentifs, vous pourrez prendre en note le password du iphone de Dave Morin

In our culture, there’s something sacred about following the advice of your parents. It’s seen as a child’s duty and ranks up there with doing one’s religious duty as The Right Thing to do. Books, movies, and television plots are hinged on the parents’ wisdom as a moral. But for careers in our industry, this moral is wrong.

Your parents would rather you be OK than have a remarkable career at the cost of great personal risk. More than any other third party you might look to, your parents are going to give you fear-driven advice. Fear-driven advice is geared toward not losing. Thinking about not losing is not the way to win! Winners take risks. They think about where they want to go—not where the rest of the pack is. Fear- driven career planning is more likely to land you in a cubicle farm for the rest of your life than on the path to greatness. Sure, it’s safe, but it’s no fun.

A generation ago, fun wasn’t a deciding factor when we talked about career choices. Jobs aren’t supposed to be fun. They’re supposed to bring home the bacon. Fun is what you do on your off days. Fun happens in the evenings and weekends. But if your job isn’t fun, as we’ve come to realize, you don’t do a fantastic job at it. It’s not so much that things are different now, but our cultural understanding of what it means to work has shifted for the better. More of us under- stand that passion leads to excellence. And without fun, there’s un- likely to be any passion in a software job.

Lire les détails de l’annonce sur le blog officiel :

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html

Vous avez (ou travaillez sur) un site qui utilise l’API de google maps? Si vous n’êtes pas certain de votre “consommation”, vous pouvez vérifier via la Google APIs Console, car d’ici le début 2012, vous devrez avoir soit :

• baissé votre consommation;
• accepté de sortir la carte pour payer l’extra;
• ou vous être procuré un compte Premier.

Pour un site de grande envergure, je crois que la dernière solution est celle qui fait le plus de sens… À moins de tout remonter dans MapQuest….

Bon, ok, ça part petit, mais c’est quand même très intéressant :

In the past few thousand years, the way we pay has changed just three times—from coins, to paper money, to plastic cards.
Now we’re on the brink of the next big shift.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/google-wallet-launch/
http://www.google.com/wallet/

If you’re Google, you can’t just repeat a second at the end of the day whenever the IERS announces a leap second, because you’re running too many time-sensitive operations. What happens if two delicate processes happen one second after another, but the computer thinks they took place at the same time? Kablooey, right? Well, believe it or not, Google has solved the problem.

Read article :
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_warps_time_to_keep_its_computers_runnin.php