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mj writes:
are university degrees worth the bother?
are universities correctly servicing the IT industry (and specifically the games dev market) with skills, knowledge, toolsets?
why have IT graduates decreased from 1900 in 2004 to 600 in 2007?
are we seeing a knock on effect from technology failures in the province, e.g. Nortel, Seagate
with the improvement of toolsets, a [...]
Software is not about code. It is about your company’s relationships. I have started seen companies with innovative products that use cutting edge technologies fail, simply because they didn’t understand their relationship with their customers, or didn’t understand it in time. Likewise, companies with demonstrably crap software (or even vaporware) thrive because [...]
1 – The coffee tastes like shit so I’m never tempted to order one
If I forget myself and accidentally order one I certainly never order a second (I usually drink hot chocolate in Starbucks).
2 – You have to pay for wi-fi so I’m never distracted by IM/IRC/RSS
In the UK, all the wi-fi at Starbucks is [...]
There’s been a lot of traffic on the MacSB mailing list and on various blogs (e.g. Panic and Atomicbird) about how Apple is handling the release of Leopard in the same way as they did with Tiger, and about how indie developers get the short end of the stick because we don’t see Leopard until [...]