Everyone sensible in IT has been saying for years that if you buy COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software packages) you shouldn’t customize it - it’s wildly expensive and you end up with something hard to maintain and almost impossible to upgrade.

A good article on Earthquake Early Warning Systems, benefits and challenges:

I’m constantly surprised when start-up founders ask me at what point should they hire their first designer. My answer is usually some variation of, “if you were designing your own house, when would you hire an architect”?

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25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. Here’s the story:

As an… – Internet Explorer user I want to… – feel the blood, sweat, and tears of the product team, the broken families, the divorces, contrasted with the energy of 2am foosball tournaments that went into creating it so that… – I can help put a dent in Netscape’s marketshare

#Banija #Banovina Bajka o obnovi i razvoju portalnovosti.com/bajka-za-obnov…

“…sales teams with spans of control consistently outperform teams with spans of control greater than 7. The benefits of smaller teams are real.” “…many businesses observing 15-20% annual attrition. …recruiting numbers should be about 1.25x the actual number of seats to fill”

“Why are designers designing stuff that destroys the environment in its making?” “Designers have no power.” “Why aren't we in a position of authority?” Impactful change happens through educating users, not carving out niches in hierarchies. Users are the final decision-makers.

"Women are often not the ones covered in media … and therefore they don't have the notability requirements that some of the editors in Wikipedia are leaning on."

"It's all held together by compression only," she says. "We wanted to really show that the forces are all being transferred within the structure," which is key to ensuring that the bridge would stand solidly and not topple.

Why should I bother about learning Storytelling, they say...

“The best programmers I know are product-first, but actually have more coding knowledge than the coding-first programmers. They know when to use the chainsaw vs the hand saw vs the chisel.”

Guess what? Bringing the money was the only thing that really mattered. I have seen so many tech startups with inadequate tech and inexperienced founders who get funded because money buys an experienced team. What matters is the idea not the tech.

Yesterday evening Iceland had the parliamentary election. For the first time in Icelandic (and European?) history there are more women in parliament then men. Well done #Iceland

Ekipa, ide li netko u petak iz Zagreba za Rijeku, da bi povezao jednu osobu i malog psa? Sve iza nekih 16 h odgovara ❤️ Hitno je, pa ako može RT?

Since #Vatreni won, here's some impressions of the sport as an American who's lived in Croatia for 21 years. I played soccer - badly - as a kid for 10 years and followed my son through the whole Croatian youth system over 12 years. He now plays for his college in the USA.