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While I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think this is a good way to be judging this competition. It's probably the fault of the organisers, expecting you to look at every single one. They should have split the list between judges or at least had a shortlist.
The reason I take issue with what you've said is that you risk missing the point. Someone might have conceived something ingenious but lacked the design skills to make them pop. This way, you seem to have been biased in favour of more attention-grabbing candidates, which is a shame.
Commented Oct 28, 2012 on Judging Websites at Coding Horror
Judging Websites
I was invited to judge the Rails Rumble last year, but was too busy to participate. When they extended the offer again this year, I happily accepted. The Rails Rumble is a distributed programming competition where teams of one to four people, from all over the world, have 48 hours to build a...
Jeff, I urge you to read "The Checklist Manifesto" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Checklist-Manifesto-Things-Right/dp/0312430000/) and see if that changes your stance. It's arguably the most important book I've read on the subject.
Commented Oct 5, 2012 on Todon't at Coding Horror
Todon't
What do you need to do today? Other than read this blog entry, I mean. Have you ever noticed that a huge percentage of Lifehacker-like productivity porn site content is a breathless description of the details of Yet Another To-Do Application? There are dozens upon dozens of the things to choo...
Does anyone have any experience of the Hawking Broadband Booster ( http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1302/Hawking-Broadband-Booster-Review/p1/ ) instead of using a custom firmware? I'm currently using an Airport Extreme and have no desire to replace it (although I would like to get the QOS benefits mentioned).
Commented Jun 18, 2012 on Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router at Coding Horror
Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router
About a year and a half ago, I researched the state of routers: about as unsexy as it gets but essential to the stability, reliability, and security of your Internet connection. My conclusion? This is boring old plain vanilla commodity router hardware, but when combined with an open source fi...
I'm genuinely amazed there's not a single comment here about how it isn't possible/practical to write code on a "post-pc" device.
Bar a few specialised industries, how many people can really do all their work on an iPad?
Commented Mar 20, 2012 on Welcome to the Post PC Era at Coding Horror
Welcome to the Post PC Era
What was Microsoft's original mission? In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most startups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision – a computer on every desktop and in every home. The existential crisis facing Microsoft is that they achieved their missi...
I think as a gamer, surround sound is more important than fidelity. With that in mind, most built-in sound cards do not support dolby digital live. Hence I very recently invested in a Creative X-Fi 5.1 to use in conjunction with an Astro MixAmp and Turtle Beach HPX1 cans. Granted it's a bit convoluted, but it's awesome.
Commented May 6, 2011 on Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway? at Coding Horror
Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway?
The last sound card I purchased was in 2006, and that's only because I'm (occasionally) a bleeding edge PC gamer. The very same card was still in my current PC until a few days ago. It's perhaps too generous to describe PC sound hardware as stagnant; it's borderline irrelevant. The default, bu...
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