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Month: April 2008
How to hire the right people
I just stumbled across this job posting at Coding Horror. Go read it then come back. His post very closely follows my philosophy of hiring. I didn’t know I had one until about a year ago when a former employee asked me how I hired people. After giving it some thought my answer was that […]
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Why are Vista launch shortcut keys so slow?
Count to yourself: One MississippiTwo MississippiThree MississippiFour MississippiFive Mississippi That’s how long it takes for Vista to open a command prompt (cmd.exe) when linked to a shortcut key (ctrl-alt-C). Trying it with other keystrokes doesn’t change the time it takes. This is on a Thinkpad T60 with 3 gig of RAM and a dual core […]
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