Daniel Hughes
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New Meetup Group: Business People Who Code
I just organized a new meetup group called Business People Who Code. Here’s the basic premise as I described it on the Meetup website for the group:
The name of this group is a bit of an oxymoron. After all, everyone knows business people can’t write code and those who code don’t understand business. This group is designed to challenge those assumptions. If you’re a business person who wants to learn programming, you’ve come to the right place. And if you’re a programmer who feels pigeon holed, this group is a good place to network yourself over to the business side.
For our first series of events we’re going to organize a study group for anyone interested in learning the C programming language.
So far the response has been great (26 members and counting including some familiar faces from NYTM & NextNY) despite my having invested very little effort thus far in promoting it. I’m looking forward to our first event!
http://www.meetup.com/business-people-who-code
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Bill Gates: “Now, if Google ever chooses to pull out of the United States, then I’d give them credit.”
Huh?
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So sad, the Boxee Box is delayed until November
I’ve been dying to get my hands on one of these things. Boxee is already running in my living room (via an Acer computer) and has been my primary source of TV entertainment for ~6 months now. In fact, not since the Celtics lost to the Lakers have I watched regular television. Boxee + Netflix + MLB.tv = all the video entertainment I need.
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Genius PR move. From @Posterous to @Twitpic…
“Hey @noaheverett: if you’d like to discuss data portability, please email me. sachin@posterous.com. Lawyers are expensive. We can be friends”
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/30/lawyers-are-expensive-we-can-be-friends-posterous-to-twitpic
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Domino’s is the FedEx of pizza delivery. Very impressive ordering experience, but the pizza was a C+ at best.
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Big celebration today in Hoboken for the Cake Boss. I liked it better before the bakery became famous and I could stop in for a croissant and coffee on the way to the office. Now the tourists line up around the corner.
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Our apartment is beginning to look like a home. Angela bought these funky fish from Sobral and decorated the dining area. Glad one of us has flare for design.
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This is just too funny not to share. I just watched it on my TV via Boxee (more on that later). Enjoy!
Oh, and about the BP oil spill. Couldn’t all of this have been avoided had they just drilled a relief well before it was needed? Why is that not standard practice? Rather than argue about renaming the MMS or a moratorium on off-shore drilling, let’s just require two wells for every offshore drilling site —- one for pumping oil and the other for stopping spills. Drill baby drill.
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