September 25, 2008
When I’m at my desk for anything longer than just a couple of minutes, you can almost guarantee that there will be music playing. And it’s usually one of the many songs I copied from my constantly growing CD collection to my computer. It’s no wonder that the iPod and portable media players in general [...]
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September 22, 2008
Technology blogger Robert Cringley wrote today about 80 percent solutions.
“80 percent solutions … are fast, increasingly reliable, and keep the end users in the loop from almost the beginning.”
This got me wondering: do 80% solutions now suffice nearly 100% of the time? And is this acceptable? Should we strive for more? Is the incremental improvement [...]
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