Marketing: Engineered to Fail
“We don’t have time to do it right, but we have time to do it thrice.”
“Enough” of an Interpretation
“Enough” of an Interpretation
The Beating
The Beating
Is He Psychic?
There are 3 students lined up one behind the other, facing the front of the room. The teacher has 3 black hats and 2 white hats. The teacher puts 1 hat on each student randomly, and tells them whoever can say for sure what their hat color is gets an A for the semester.
Comparing Apples and Kindles
Introduction With the recent launch of the iPad, there’s been a lot of comparisons[1] between them and Amazon’s Kindle. In this article, I’ll talk about why they really aren’t competitors and why it would be a mistake for Amazon to try to compete with the iPad.
Online Games: How To Bring The Fun Back
Introduction The greatest advance the Internet has brought us is a new level of connectivity between people around the world. And one area that has enjoyed the greatest benefit is online games. Now, no matter where you are or what time it is, you can find someone to play a game with. Anything from Chess […]
Multi-Line Macros in C
The correct form of a multi-line macro is:
#define run_and_test() do { run(); test(); } while(0) /* Note: no ending semi-colon */
The 3 Most Important Parts of a Company
What are the 3 most important parts of any company? Everyone has a different opinion. What’s interesting is their answers and reasoning.
Disruptive Technologies
An interesting article [bower, christensen-1995] from the 1995 edition of Harvard Business Review. They outline why it is that market leaders often lose to disruptive technologies; how to identify disruptive technologies; and how a company can effectively embrace disruptive technologies.
Check to see if a process is running
To see if a process is running, you can use the kill command: kill -0 <pid> You can then look at the return result to see if it was running. This is a little better than the typical “ps|grep” method.