Month: April 2008

How to hire the right people

Posted on April 4, 2008 by ericgharrison

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?

Posted on April 4, 2008 by ericgharrison

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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