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	<description>Appeal to greatness not guilt</description>
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		<title>Time for Money (business 101)</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/time-for-money-business-101/269</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a post talking about the &#8220;Does your startup pass The Sleep Test&#8220;, in principal the idea is sound it&#8217;s a little simplistic.
Fifteen years ago I worked as a consultant, the money was good but the problem I quickly realized is that fundamentally I was just trading time for money.  We can all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted code review&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/twisted-code-review/261</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thrift]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a few minutes and speak python &#038; twisted, it would be useful to have an extra set of eyes on this section of code.  The basic idea of this is to be a reconnecting thrift client, such that I can just write simple  client.function(a,b,c) calls without having to worry about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good ideas, inquire within</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/good-ideas-inquire-within/259</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had lots of idea of things to build, as somebody once said ideas are a dime a dozen, it&#8217;s doing it that&#8217;s the hard work.  Between talking to companies over the years, or just random things I&#8217;ve stumbled across there has to be a good idea to put more energy into.
Things I&#8217;ve built in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Your Calories</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/tax-your-calories/256</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/tax-your-calories/256#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a random idea that came out of a strange hallway conversation on the cost of health care.  Here&#8217;s the idea of the week.
One of the current big problems in America is the over consumption of food yielding both health problems and just waste.  Since we&#8217;re currently trying to figure out how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small changes in UI have big impact</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/small-changes-in-ui-have-big-impact/255</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/small-changes-in-ui-have-big-impact/255#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By allowing selection in a UI can lead to a huge impact in what you expect &#8212; not really rocket science&#8230;   In an app that only allows for the addition (+undo for removal) your mental model is fairly simple.  The moment you add the concept of selection all of a sudden your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook vs. Google</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/facebook-vs-google/253</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/facebook-vs-google/253#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a great discussion this morning with a co-worker.  The crux of the conversation is Google vs. Facebook &#8212; who is going to win. Is Google Wave the game changer that will kill facebook?
Nope.  We&#8217;ve really created three different product spaces in these organizations.  We&#8217;ve got Google which is &#8220;defined&#8221; as an applications company (gmail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content agregation vs. Human Editors</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/content-agregation-vs-human-editors/251</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/content-agregation-vs-human-editors/251#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nlp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This idea came up in a conversation the other day with somebody&#8230;  The crux of it is that more startups, toy websites or other research projects have been created over the years to aggregate blogs, twitters, lives into a single stream.   Everything from facebook, friendfeed, google reader, netvibes, etc.  Hey, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Array Intersection Bake-off</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/array-intersection-bake-off/236</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/array-intersection-bake-off/236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java python php ruby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of those moments where an interview question turns into a research project, or is it really a bake off?  The simple problem is demonstrate an algorithm to intersect two lists of numbers, fundamentally it&#8217;s a question about using modern interpreted languages and their associative array bits to make a simple intersection routine.  However many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zend Framework vs. Django Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/zend-framework-vs-django-performance/230</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/zend-framework-vs-django-performance/230#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[django]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zend]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a scientific nor rigorious test&#8230;  But, here&#8217;s some interesting data for people to chew on.  I&#8217;ve got a production site built using the Zend Framework and a beta site built using django.  What&#8217;s interesting is the &#8220;Time spent downloading a page&#8221; graphs from Google Webmaster Tools.
The Zend Framwork Graph &#8212; average speed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Django performance</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/django-performance/228</link>
		<comments>http://www.skitoy.com/p/django-performance/228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on ZapQuiz and still having the love hate with python and django.  Areas that I would like see improved:
Template Variables : I&#8217;m currently doing strange things like:
 &#60;body id="{% block tmpl_id %}{% endblock %}" class="{% block tmpl_class %}{% endblock %}"&#62;
and then the included template is setting those variables.  Which when you think about [...]]]></description>
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