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Date Archive: September, 2007

Time Thursday Sep 20 2007 7:07am

Permalink for '' Optimize for Now, Innovate for Later

Author by Sean Tags under No Tags Comments with 5 comments

Brendan recently told me about a new blog post by Joel Spolsky about Javascript/AJAX and the future of web development. In the article, Joel claims that the history of development on the desktop is now mirroring itself on the web. He draws many excellent parallels between the past and present. In terms of optimization, […]

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Time Thursday Sep 13 2007 11:45am

Permalink for '' A Commentary On Google Dress Code

Author by Guest Tags under Comments with 2 comments

Boy have we been busy. Ever since I started at Google, aB has been languishing in the background. But look, a post! Our author is a fellow product manager and Olin alumni, Nate Smith.
I was feeling especially close to my manager at the end of our
one-on-one meeting the other day, and I dared to […]

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