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POPSGood Agile, Bad Agile (or Why Google is Unstoppable) Steve Yegge on the benefits and mostly drawbacks of agile programming. Probably the most interesting portion is his insider's look into the development atmosphere at Google, where a controlled type of agile programming runs rampant, with huge results. Oh and did he menion the perks? And there are still other incentives; the list goes on and ON and ON ; the perks are over the top, and the rewards are over the top, and everything there is so comically over the top that you have no choice, as an outsider, but to assume that everything the recruiter is telling you is a baldfaced lie, because there's no possible way a company could be that generous to all of its employees, all of them, I mean even the contractors who clean the micro-kitchens, they get these totally awesome "Google Micro-Kitchen Staff" shirts and fleeces.
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POPSWhen Google Owns You So, what happens now? What does Nick do? He’s sent a bunch of emails. But now what? Locked out of ALL of Google’s apps, the apps that I praise daily, the apps where Julien Smith and I are writing a book. Should we be doing that? I didn’t see a problem until this. What if we’re the next Nick? What’s your take? And what do you think of hands off customer service in this case?
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POPSFirst - it was toilet computing, now - bath! Just imagine bending down to wash your toes with one hand, while the other reaches the 'buy' button after you've selected how many shares of Google to buy on fidelity.com. Practically new form of exercise. Call it 'bath yoga'.
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POPSAre photographers really a threat? Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? Because it's a movie-plot threat. This is worth fighting. Search "photographer rights" on Google and download one of the several wallet documents that can help you if you get harassed; I found one for the UK, US, and Australia. Don't cede your right to photograph in public. Don't propagate the terrorist photographer story. Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR. Eventually sanity will be restored, but it may take a while.
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POPSStudying volcanoes with flying balloons :) "The balloons are piloted remotely by satellite link," Durant explained, "with flight visualization using Google Earth. We were looking at tropospheric volcanic emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and water, which can be hazardous to human and animal health and degrade ecosystems."
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POPSQuantum Computing Day 1: Introduction to Quantum Computing (GoogleTechTalk) ... This first talk of the series introduces the basic concepts of quantum computing. We start by looking at the difference in describing a classical and a quantum mechanical system. The talk discusses the Turing machine in quantum mechanical terms and introduces the notion of a qubit. We study the gate model of quantum computing and look at the famous quantum algorithms of Deutsch, Grover and Shor. Finally we talk about decoherence and how it destroys superposition states which is the main obstacle to building large scale quantum computers. We clarify widely held misconceptions about decoherence and explain that environmental interaction tends to choose a basis in state space in which the system decoheres while leaving coherences in other coordinate systems intact. Speaker: Hartmut Neven -- Day 2
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POPSNorth American Union? WHAT is going on?? CNN's "Lou Dobbs" Reports: President Bush Signed Formal Agreement to End United States as we know it! I'm not sure what to make of this, so I am clipping it and would love to hear everyone's take on this. Go to the source and read the whole thing and then Google "Amero". As for the dollar collapsing, read this: Is China Quietly Dumping US Treasuries?
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POPS30 Google Apps You’ve Never Heard Of On the other hand, there are quite a few apps I have heard of! Still, this list is a highly useful one! To learn more on this, visit the site pl. Couldn't clip it all...
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POPSBuild Your Vocabulary - Feed The World More: Viral marketing, the compelling game, and the cause it supports are key to the site's success, WFP's Barton says. An ad is featured on the bottom of each page, and it is these advertisers who ultimately fund the checks Breen writes to the WFP. He is looking into Google ads and hiring an ad agency to run the site. Breen has specified that he wants the WFP to buy locally to support farmers in developing countries, rather than using imported food, which tends to depress local crop prices. Breen has already sent $113,000 to the WFP and will send more in increments of $10,000 to $15,000 as advertising dollars roll in, Barton says. Breen says he sends all profits to the WFP, and the site has no political or religious affiliation. He donates his time and pays the cost of leasing the site's servers himself. "Some people like to give money to their colleges or whatever," he writes by e-mail, "and this I what I prefer to do with it."
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POPS Honey, "Remember The Milk" Never forget the milk (or anything else) again. From PC to Mobile device, this is the best way to manage your tasks. FREE download.
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POPSControversy--Undercover Mosque on Channel 4 (UK) (I saw this doc and it was an absolute horrorshow . Talk about a wake-up to reality!! The videos are available online, youtube I think, maybe google.) Anyways: more from article-- His denial is very widely shared – which is why Mr Patani remains in his job, and why he won’t even be disciplined. The alarming truth is that much of Government policy towards radical Islam is based on Mr Patani’s delusion: if we pretend that radical Islamic preachers do not exist but are rather a creation of Islamophobic journalists, they will just go away. That sort of denial is extremely dangerous. ( YA THINK??????)
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POPSCell Phones for Kids? I have a 14 yr old who has been nagging for a cell phone for a year now. Disney mobile was suggested (by his "real" mom - the boys are my step sons) and he darned near died and claimed that it's not only restrictive (uhum) but would be a complete embarrassment in school or around other kids because it has the Disney logo on it. I was not the one that made this suggestion. However, I can't seem to get it through to him that with the responsibility also comes "restriction of use." Why would any parent leave a child to his own devices without enforcing restrictions? Our 15 yr old hasn't even voiced a desire for a gadget of any type. He likes them but he's not a gadget addict like our 14 yr old. And soooo, he's off on a google search for phones for kids that offer more freedom. I don't know what good it will do but he will make every attempt to prove his point in case. ;)
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POPSYahoo turns to Google. Microsoft cries foul. Very interesting move by Yahoo! They may be able to significantly increasing their earnings by integrating Google's search ads on their own site. Talk about a potential blow to microsoft. To think that they're left crying foul about this being anti-competitive after all these years is beyond ironic.
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