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Sun Apr 20 21:30:25 HKT 2008
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How do you think about this? http://www.google.com/search?q=hire+slowly+fire+quickly The other guide - http://home.att.net[..]rey.slinker/maverick/MaverickHiring.html startup hiring - http://blogs.atlassian.com[..]is_a_hire_way_5_tips_for_startup_hi.html First of all, the #1 cardinal criteria for getting hired at Fog Creek: Smart, and Gets Things Done. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html Six Point: -Technical Knowledge. -Critical Thinking. -Can You Solve Problems? -Can You Learn? -Can You Change Based on Environment and Evidence? -Are You Toxic? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=228097
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Tue Mar 18 01:25:23 HKT 2008
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... 而入場費１５００萬至１６００萬元... so 15M / 20k = 750. I don't know who will consider paying 15M for a 750ft flat, but definitely not me. http://hk.biz.yahoo.com/060404/239/1mogf.html?s=0001.hk
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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008
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A very nice article about consideration of developing software product, here is a quote: Most projects carried out by internal IT organizations suffer from budget overruns that occur for two reasons: excessive customization and changing requirements. In an effort to keep external customers—especially big, powerful ones—happy, many IT groups end up overcustomizing solutions and adding needless costs and complexity. One large consumer credit company almost doubled the time and money originally allocated to a new platform for institutional customers by trying to satisfy all of their operational and technology needs. http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com[..]m/article_print.aspx?L2=13&L3=13&ar=1697 The other recommendation of developing good product for mobile device - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com[..]velopers_Guide_To_Marketing_Software.php
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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008
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Adopt from yahoo 【明報專訊】過去數十年，有股神之稱的巴菲特一直依賴他的膽量和直覺去管理上市公司巴郡（Berkshire Hathaway）。看?他的工作，你會發現到一些不會在其他金融大亨身上看到的東西。他每日大部分時間都會呆在那沒有電腦的辦公室內。他會迅速做出投資決定，但會避開會議和顧問，從不制訂程序，甚至不會要求經理們經常提交報告。他偶爾會拿起電話聽筒，指示他的經紀落注，交易總額至少1億美元。 廣 告 75歲高齡 未擬找繼承人 最近一個星期三，他全日收到了13個電話，其中1個是撥錯號碼的。所有電話，都沒有急促和緊張的對話。當天，他可以騰出時間，為情歌《Love Me Tender》譜上新詞，用來在好友蓋茨（微軟主席）的生日會上送給他。他又會親身示範少年派報時學到的拋報紙絕技。 年屆75歲的巴菲特，年紀漸大，面對的棘手問題就愈多。包括巴郡實在太倚賴巴菲特的頭腦，那麼他的承繼人應要怎樣繼續經營這間公司﹖巴菲特稱，他未準備退位，所以他目前仍然無意尋找繼承人。 雖然巴菲特的王國多年來不斷向外擴張，但巴菲特的日常工作程序，在這些年來並沒有大改變。他表示，每日花最多時間去思考和閱讀、處理少量的電話，又會與巴郡各分公司的主管討論事項。他很少主持會議，因為他稱這沒有多大用處。 巴郡總部只有17員工 巴郡的規模雖然龐大，不過它沒有公關部、人事部、投資者關係部，甚至法律管理部。它不會為投資者或分析員安排季度業績會議，而且不會為未來的盈利給予預測。它的總部，只有17位員工。 某一個星期三，早上9點，巴菲特把座駕泊在停車場之後，精神奕奕地步進巴郡總部。最近，喜歡吃漢堡飽和喝汽水的他，接受了醫生意見，進行每周3日的健康療程。 步進公司後，他與助手閒聊幾句，就走入面積不太大的辦公室，鎖上門。他的辦公室沒有電腦，沒有股票報價機。他把電視扭到報導最新金融消息的CNBC 台，但就把聲量調到最小。他的桌子上沒有計數機，因為他喜歡心算。他稱，大部分投資決定，都沒有必要做出準確的計算。他書桌後一個小櫃上，放?兩台黑色的電話，可直接聯絡他的經紀。 投資決定毋須精準計算 當天，他就為巴郡的投資組合購入了約1.4億美元（約10.9億港元）的股票，這個規模，已經可以媲美大部分互惠基金的總值。他的桌面不會堆滿股票研究報告。巴菲特說﹕「我不會聽分析員意見，亦不會求神問卜。」。 進行交易時，巴菲特會給予經紀很大的自由度。2003年，巴菲特決定買入中石油（0857）股份。當時他的「御用經紀」、在花旗投資銀行部工作的 JohnFreund經常在香港開市、即美國時間晚上9時致電巴菲特。這段時間，正是巴菲特在家中穿?運動衣，玩網上橋牌的時候。Freund形容，他時常打斷巴菲特的休息時間，詢問他的意見。 經紀代買中石油 不用覆盤 有一晚，有2億股中石油在市場上求售。Freund致電巴菲特，要求他作決定。巴菲特只回應了一句﹕「去買吧﹗」。當晚稍後時間，一位香港的經紀通知Freund，已成功以巴菲特的名義購入這些股份。Freund聽後轉了一個身，便施施然進入夢鄉，毋須再驚動巴菲特，因為Freund知道巴菲特的需要，與他其他客戶完全不同。 《華爾街日報》 明報記者 李凱茵 http://hk.news.yahoo.com/051112/12/1imoo.html
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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008
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There are four ways of going about this… [1] – Submit your resume to a job site like Monster, and wait… [2] – Attend various on-campus recruiting efforts… [3] – Work with a recruiter… [4] – Get recommended by a friend on the inside… [1] and [2] are most ppl doing, [4] is nice if you have such friend, the best choice to trying [3]. More detail at http://www.wallstreetprogrammer.com[..]inding-a-programming-job-on-wall-street/
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Sat Feb 16 11:20:25 HKT 2008
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10 rules of success, not really very insighful ideas but still nice to take a look: http://draginol.joeuser.com/articles.asp?c=1&AID=114319 Another 10 tips for product manager - http://www.brainmates.com.au/?p=109 An interesting example of how people gaming the reward system - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/05/10.html Interview of Jeff Bezos and learn about his management style - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/85/bezos_4.html Dos and Don'ts for line manager - http://blog.jezhumble.net/?p=29 8 elements of dysfunctional management - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]lements-of-dysfunctional-management.html Talk verse Action: All Talk and No Action - http://www.thekua.com[..]ectives-go-wrong-all-talk-and-no-action/ All Action and No Talk - http://www.thekua.com[..]ectives-go-wrong-all-action-and-no-talk/ A suggestion of taking the balance - http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/61 Discussion about issues of managing remote teams - http://inhumanresources.blogspot.com/2008/01/1.html Team building with the way of "pointy haired boss" ?? - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_12.html Promote the problem maker to make them better?? Is that work? - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_16.html May be it is true that problem maker are innovator, give them more work and reward can change their negative performance to more than expected positive performance.
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Thu Jan 31 10:42:24 HKT 2008
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Myth that Free Market save everything - http://bitworking.org/news/289/The-Free-Market-Fairy Well... then anything better than free market??
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Thu Jan 24 09:55:17 HKT 2008
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The best way I've found to interview candidate developers is to pair program with them to do real work on the actual code of the project that is hiring. If not possible, give programming exercise which is: The exercise must involve working with current development tools. The exercise must require the candidate to apply important features of the language. The exercise must involve understanding and working with existing code. The exercise must involve error handling. The exercise must involve testing. The exercise must offer scope for domain modelling. The exercise must involve asking questions. The exercise must be realistic. The exercise must involve changing requirements. The exercise must offer the candidate enough rope to hang themselves. The exercise must test many different skills and practices. A good interview programming exercise takes at least an hour. - http://nat.truemesh.com/archives/000630.html The other interesting reading - http://blog.secosoft.net[..]ass-kickin-interviewscreening-questions/ Phone interview - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePhoneScreen.html Questions that somebody like to ask... although I think this guy is a bit arrogance - http://softarc.blogspot.com[..]y-favorite-java-developer-interview.html Another interview question and answer - http://journeymanjournal.blogspot.com/2005/03/sir-am-i-hired.html http://paultyma.blogspot.com[..]/howto-pass-silicon-valley-software.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001042.html How about lie at CV? http://jroller.com[..]mon?entry=lying_on_your_r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 Interviewing in google - http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/000174.html What interviewee should asked at interview - http://blog.reindel.com[..]programmer-should-ask-on-a-job-interview
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Wed Nov 21 14:33:10 HKT 2007
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P2P filesharing can actually helping music sell, according to this article, if there is large amount of people download, this is a very good marketing tools - http://www.thelongtail.com[..]e_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html After you spend so much effort of promoting your product, may be you miss promoting your product to YOU?? And there are millions of YOU all over the earth? http://software.ericsink.com/entries/Note_to_self.html Cool way to promote, mix with free service and love - http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1588 Name is important - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]4/pick-the-right-name-for-your-projects/ Sometime, it would be a nice promotion of comment your product in negative way, some how - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000971.html?r=11182 The official definition is that marketing creates demand, while sales fulfils demand, how Joel demo software - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/11/16.html
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Wed Jun 27 01:19:31 HKT 2007
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Eric have release 3 article about putting advertisment at development magazine: http://software.ericsink.com/Magazine_Advertising.html http://software.ericsink.com/entries/Magazines_Dying.html http://software.ericsink.com/entries/Mag_Ads_March2007.html I don't think this is really useful for me, but this can be a reference as the discussion is in depth ~ Few links about how to earn good money using online advertiment, don't know if they work or not, but look like the investiment is not that less http://www.johnchow.com http://desinotes.com/
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Wed May 16 00:26:52 HKT 2007
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Some nice tips of having presentation Do not spend half of your talk "motivating" your topic. Have a rhythm. Let's be honest Tell a story. Make sure you solve an actual problem. Not everything you say has to be brand new. Never let anyone touch your slides after you have last seen them. http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/51_javaone.html
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Sat Apr 14 23:49:08 HKT 2007
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She, start her career as beautician, and end as CIO - http://www.informationweek.com[..]rintableArticle.jhtml?articleID=47902662 Tom hardware sold for US$15-20 Million... I guess this is successful? http://mashable.com/2007/04/08/toms-hardware/ Successful story of local store - http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006092303309 Not rich not famous, why programming? - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com[..]06/07/get-famous-by-not-programming.html 7. I think I know why I admire micro-ISVs. Some of my fascination with micro-ISVs is rooted in my wonderings about the path of my career over the long term. When I was 22, I believed that I could write code until age 65. I saw no reason why I could not be a software developer for my entire professional career. Some folks told me that being a coder is a burnout job, but I didn't believe them. I am 36 now, and I think I have a better understanding of things. I am starting to realize that someday I may actually want to make a career change. I am trying to picture myself running an ISV when I am 55, but I just don't see it. Running a company can be awfully stressful sometimes. Will I still want to be doing this in two more decades? My prospects for a second career are bleak. The cold reality is that I only know how to do one thing. Instead of looking for a second career, maybe I should be looking for a way to stay in software. This is one of the things I like about micro-ISVs. The lifestyle looks very different. The workflow looks like it might be a lot less stressful. Running a micro-ISV looks more like a marathon and less like a sprint. At my recent lunch with Thomas Warfield (Pretty Good Solitaire), I asked him if he thought he could still be running his micro-ISV at age 50. He said yes. Warfield is 40 now, so this is not the perspective of a naive young person just getting started. I believe him, and his answer makes me wonder if somebody I will be running some sort of a micro-ISV as my full-time job. http://msdn.microsoft.com[..]-us/dnsoftware/html/software10012004.asp
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