LINKBLOG for May 24, 2007

• meetuplex - Very funny comparison by a company called Meetup, comparing themselves to Google
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  Questions every Candidate should ask a potential new employer - Derik Whittaker
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  Shelf Life of a Software Application - Derik Whittaker
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  WTF Stories #5 : The Weasely Recruiter - the.codist{}
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  Cone of Uncertainty Controversy 10x Software Development - Steve McConnell
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  Scalability vs. Performance: it isn't a battle - Esoteric Curio
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  reCAPTCHA: A new way to fight spam
Seems like a nice idea: solve a CAPTCHA and help digitalizing books at the same time...
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  Google turns the page… in a bad way - OpenDNS Blog
Some less favorable news on Google...
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  DNRTv Series - Demystifying Design Patterns (Source code and information) - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo
Just finished watching a piece of part 1. Oh, how much there is to learn, and how much information we can find for free; if we just had the time....
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  The endless fall to uselessness of MS Connect - Frans Bouma's blog
Looks like not everyone is content on how Microsoft treats it's most active users... the ones who file bug reports
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  The C#.NET Alpha-Geek® Quiz
Hmm, not very simple at least. There's some questions where you should read the code carefully before deciding on an answer