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Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Setting Record - Businessweek

Crazy.

I heard a rep from 3 (swedish cell provider) on the radio a few years ago talking about how he threw away half of the applications before digging in due to the load.

Google being Google they probably use some serious data-mining to weed out applicants in the first rounds. But still. 75k.

Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions

CO2-neutral artificial gas? Yes please.

Facebook turns on HTTPS to block WiFi hijacking

Facebook announced Wednesday it would begin supporting a feature to protect users from having their accounts hijacked over WiFi connections or snooped on by schools and businesses.

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It’s not my problem. The hole is in their side of the boat.

Agile development is more culture than process and why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach

The coolest thing about a waterfall process is that it allows me personally to succeed, to demonstrate skill and competence, while the end result of the process is a dismal failure. Cleverly built into a waterfall process are a variety of scapegoating mechanisms that allow us to blame other people, or outside influences for failure. Given that important value of demonstrating personal competence, and keeping me personally safe, a waterfall process seems like an ideal process choice.

The article is worth reading just for that quote by itself.

Spotify - coming soon to a Squeezebox near you

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve joined forces with Logitech to bring Spotify to your Squeezebox Touch and Squeezebox Radio. For those unfamiliar with Squeezebox, we highly recommend…

A typical sunday

Woke up
Went to uni
Studied for a few hours, prepared speech for the seminars tomorrow
Went home
Ate / watched one episode of family guy
Worked on the mobile applications project for a few hours, trying to wrap up the current state of things and prepare for meeting tomorrow.
Launched spork, autotest and vim. Time for rails.
Sleep

#tragic

VLC for iOS Pulled From The App Store, Now on Cydia

Just like we expected in October, VLC for iOS has been removed from the App Store. But this time, the removal of one of the most popular free apps for iPhone and iPad has nothing to do with…

Ok so I will just write 5 lines of code, then I can go watch a movie

Best motivational speech I ever gave myself three hours ago.

When I write my book it will be called “Just fn do it you lazy slob - Motivational techniques for highly skilled procrastinators”.

Now if I could just get around to writing that first paragraph…