Posts Tagged ‘Untitled’

Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1

There are two things Firefox can do that Safari can’t:
1. Set pipelining on. Although there is risk that the web servers can’t support pipelining it provides a nice speedup on a high-speed connection.
2. Allow tweaking of the Connections per server setting. This is technically against the recommendations of the w3c protocol but when you have [...]

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Middle Managers in IT should manage less and facilitate more

I loved this example from Joel on Software:

Before joining Juno, I worked at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), where my experience had been very different. A bit of Redmond lore: Two software designers got into a debate over how something should be implemented. The question was highly technical. They couldn’t reach agreement, so they went to their boss, [...]

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