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I believe there are two basic things humans enjoy doing; one is giving and the other is being acknowledged. The StackExchange paradigm certainly makes it easy for anyone to have both of those.
Commented Oct 12, 2011 on The Gamification at Coding Horror
The Gamification
When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 – then known as Stack Overflow – we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt worked. Some of our notable influences included: Reddit and Digg voting Xbox 360 achievements Wikiped...
Previous to my curren router I used a WRT-54G with DD-WRT. It worked fairly well for about 3 years. I had problems peaking out my 12mb while using QoS, and got tired of having to reset it every week. I like the DD-WRT for all of its abilities, but I decided that spending time figuring out a router isn't how I want to spend my time.
So for the price, performance, concurrency and FULL firewall features, I don't think you can get much better then a Sonicwall TZ 100 for $250 (~$300 w/wireless). Sure it's not open source, but allowing 6,000 concurrent users and up to 100mb internet connections, I seriously doubt I'll have any internet issues as connection speeds increase over the next 5 years or so. With perfect QoS and full NAT/PAT it just blows anything cheaper than it out of the water.
Jeff have fun with DD-WRT, I know I did.. well for a while.
Commented Sep 28, 2010 on Because Everyone Needs a Router at Coding Horror
Because Everyone Needs a Router
Do you remember when a router used to be an exotic bit of network kit? Those days are long gone. A router is one of those salt-of-the-earth items now; anyone who pays for an internet connection needs a router, for: NAT and basic hardware firewall protection from internet evildoers A wired net...
Mono price has some fantastic prices for cables. ~13 bucks for a DisplayPort to DVI? I"m not sure about resolution, but I doubt I'd need to pay $30 for a cable (http://bit.ly/Fkx1O).
And Eyefinity really means 3-6 (so far) on a single card. Sure 6 is kinda crazy, but if you need it, its available (http://bit.ly/a2jh1I).
Commented Apr 5, 2010 on Three Monitors For Every User at Coding Horror
Three Monitors For Every User
As far as I'm concerned, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen space. By "screen", I mean not just large monitors, but multiple large monitors. I've been evangelizing multiple monitors since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition: Multiple Monitors and Productivity...
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