There’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon tells this stuck-up guy in a bar: ” You blew $150,000 on an education you could have gotten for a $1.50 in late charges at the public library.”…
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Posts about Technology I like
Why Agile Works: The Success Well
One of the useful concepts I learned in martial arts was the idea of a success well. Every person has a success well. If you try something and fail, your success well empties. If you try something and succeed, you…
Mac voodoo: Always use the combo updater
This is just a piece of mac OSX voodoo: I never use Software Update for a major OS upgrade, I always use the combo installer. Even though it’s a larger download, the combo updater ends up refreshing a big hunk…
Why I Like DB2
I cannot for the life of me figure out why people use MySQL when they have DB2 to choose from. DB2 is free for 1 core and 1GB of I/O buffer and as much data as you want. 99% of…