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Simplicity is one of 37signals' guiding principles, in programming as well as management. For most technical issues that arise, simple work-arounds will address 95% of the need with 10% of the effort that would be required to cover everything. For example, when designing Writeboard, for collaborative writing, the team wanted to let people track how much a document had changed over time. They pored over Ph.D. theses and complex algorithms. Instead, ace programmer David Hansson worked out a "cheat": software to track the number of characters in each document. The evolving total could be conveyed visually using dots...
...situation. A case in point is the 12-foot wall on which the United States military began construction in mid-April. According to original plans, it would stretch three miles through Baghdad, separating Sunni and Shiite areas. The barrier was conceived as part of a new strategy to address sectarian violence through physical separation but has largely backfired, viewed by many Sunni Iraqis as discriminatory and opposed by many in the Iraqi parliament. That the U.S. military must resort to a strategy involving a physical barrier to separate feuding sects—a strategy that has failed throughout history?...
With champagne and gift giving in the offing, the Undergraduate Council turned the focus of its last meeting this term to more competitive elections and more convenient e-mail addresses yesterday. Originally scheduled as an end-of-term celebration, the UC had some final business to finish after attendance at Sunday’s meeting dipped below what was needed to conduct a valid vote. Initially considered on Sunday, the first piece of legislation considered yesterday will provide for 10 allocations of up to $50 each to student groups willing to host study breaks that would distribute information about...
When John McCain delivered the Commencement address at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University last year, it was taken as a sign that he had made peace with the man he had skewered as an "agent of intolerance" during the 2000 primary campaign...
...announced his resignation. "And he would know better than anyone else, anyone in this room, anyone - again, the deputy attorney general would know best about the qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys community, and he signed off on the names." McNulty may feel the need to address the issue again, to clear up the question of precisely why the prosecutors were dismissed. The darkest theories are that their removal was designed to affect the prosecution of specific cases - particularly ones that might have affected the outcomes of close electoral contests. McNulty would be in a position...