Last year New York City announced that it would begin paying students for attending school, taking standardized tests and getting good grades. In spite of criticism – Barry Schwartz said the external rewards would not replace showing kids why it's good to do well in school – and no known lack of results, New York [...]
Read More »Chris Anderson has written an excellent article, Free! Why $0.00 is the Future of Business. Go read it. Send it to anyone who is having a hard time understanding how you can make money off of free stuff. He starts with the Gilette razor example, "give away razors, sell razor blades" and walks us through [...]
Read More »Matt Asay says Twitter is "mindless" and "useless". I'd say he doesn't know how to use Twitter. Twitter's not a blog – it doesn't give you useful insight or commentary. Twitter's not a news feed – it won't give you all the latest news on any topic. Although there are news feeds in Twitter. If [...]
Read More »Matt Asay blogged this morning about our announcement today covering our results and learnings from last year. We covered our significant growth in customers as well as the trends we have seen in customer usage over the past year. In his blog, he asked some questions about OpenLogic’s commitment to giving back to the open [...]
Read More »Avoid the Find.find method if at all possible if you are working on an app that may need to be deployed with JRuby (instead of a native version of Ruby). See this issue (specifically the comment that starts with 'This description is not actually true.') for details.
Read More »When I mention that I work from home occasionally, there's always someone who says, "That's great! You get to spend more time with your kids." Either they don't have kids or my kids are not normal kids. Here's what a day at home would look like for Caleb, my 18 month old, if I tried [...]
Read More »From the SCALE list: Stormy Peter's Sunday keynote speech at the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will be streamed live over the Internet. It will happen Sunday, February 10th at 10 o'clock a.m. PST on ustream.tv. The URL for the stream is http://ustream.tv/channel/scale-keynote-stormy-peters . It will go live approximately 09:55. Tune in to see [...]
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