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Steve Jobs on why no Facebook for Ping
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Talks with Facebook about Apple’s new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.”
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U2 manager still thinks ISPs are freeloading
0Paul McGuinness is once again blaming ISPs for falling music revenues. I agree with his plan: subscriptions are the answer. The problem is how to implement them.
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Amazon APIs as cloud standards? Not so fast
0Some people consider Amazon’s APIs to be the de facto cloud computing API standard. I don’t agree for several reasons–not the least of which is that it’s too early for cloud standards in the first place.
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Are We Not Testing Enough?
0Recently I wrote an editorial on FizzBuzz tests, which generated quite a debate on the performance aspect of the test. My intention was to talk about minimum bar tests, finding the lowest level of programmer you were willing to accept, but it turned into a performance contest with people trying to figure out and post the fastest, and most efficient answer.
In the discussion for my editorial, Jeff Moden mentioned that when you interview for a job, you ought to write production code. You ought to write the best solution you can, and not just a simple loop. Even if it’s a low bar test, you ought to treat it as a contest to produce the best code you can. I think I agree with that, but it makes me wonder.
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