ICANN, after years of planning, recently announced that full IDNs are a go, so that an FQDN can theoretically be completely internationalized with a selection of around 100K characters, outside the 37 available now for TLDs (26 alphabetic, 10 numeric and 1 punctuation mark – the hyphen). The limitations on the extent of a language’s characters will be down to the internationalization of the first level TLDs and the subsequent IDN naming efforts of the gTLDs and ccTLDs at the second and third levels. Here are some examples of existing, working FQDN IDNs ( <a href="http://例
Here are two well-documented stated goals that can be considered S.M.A.R.T. - one considered a great success the other a great failure, both coincidentally from the US.
An email thread I was on recently with thousands of smart recipients questioned the value of setting specific goals at a high level; that they can damage an organisation more than they help. Are S.M.A.R.T. criteria enough?
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If you are interested in working for company X, my suggestion is to quickly research and assemble a résumé for the company. A kind of “Things I know about X“. Here is the kind of data that I would look for basically in 3 categories: financials, people, operations.
Financials
- how well funded are they?
- how long will the funding last?
- what is the company financial history? Read more…
I’m about half way through the book Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World. What a great read! Lots of real world experience, pratical stuff that can be used outside software engineering too. One standout quote is attributed to Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that will survive, or the most intelligent. It is the most adaptable to change.” I should get to the end of it by Friday. Note to self: recommend to SupportEng guys.
After an impromptu lunchtime discussion today with Rian and Jeff, I thought about a service that makes PC/iPod backup at home seamless to 1+ cloud data stores (e.g. gdrive), via a simple to configure, backup caching, stylish hardware box delivered to your door, which plugs into your router and provides USB/ethernet/Wi-Fi connectivty for any device you want backed up, which then does off-peak backup in the background to the cloud – also offers easy restore functionality. Of course the device should be fanless, solid state, be completely Open Source and hackable, with an easy user upgradeable HDD. Question is how best to monetize this? So spent a few hours tonight bashing out some ideas, including buying a domain name, configuring DNS and writing 2 main webpages which I’ve put in a Google presentation for speed, http://www.altodrive.com