Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'interview'

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets | Living - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com

i understand the thinking, and am very glad he didn't run the strip into the ground, but i really do miss Calvin and Hobbes

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february 2010 by sogrady

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Q&A With Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist & Customer Insight Guru

"Numbers are hard to come by on this but in my humble experience a tiny fraction of people who should use data productively access it, and a tiny fraction of that actually end up using data effectively. We, as a universe, have a long way to go."

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Why Google Wave makes Tim Bray nervous • The Register

can't say i agree with Tim on Wave, but his thoughts are - as always - worth listening to

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels -- Chief of the Year -- InformationWeek

note in particular the very dispassionate and pragmatic response to the question of open source usage within Amazon

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january 2009 by sogrady

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Fire Brand interviews Bill James - Fire Brand of the American League

"Suppose that two players come to the majors at the same time, one of them a .280 hitter and the other a .270 hitter. . .supposing for the purpose of illustration that all baseball skills may be expressed in batting average. The .270 hitter may start out 14-for-40 (.350), earning him an extended opportunity to play. The .280 hitter may start out 5-for-35 (.143), and may never get another clean shot at a job.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Marisa Miller's Weapon: Brain Behind the Body - Sports Biz with Darren Rovell - CNBC.com

she's smart too? that's just unfair

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december 2008 by sogrady

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FOWA 08: Todd Fast of Zembly - the first development environment in the cloud

Zembly interview from FOWA

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Baseball Prospectus - Prospectus Q&A: Lars Anderson

great interview with our top positional prospect. sounds like an intriguing kid.

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august 2008 by sogrady

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derStandard.at

interesting interview with Novell's Michael Meeks; notable for the comments on Sun, copyright assignment, Go oo, and so on

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Software Firm Is Open for Innovation - WSJ.com

an interesting interview with Marten on MySQL: community as a barrier to entry being a notion i personally agree with

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Meet Tech Star - Dave Churbuck, VP of Global Web Marketing for Lenovo | @Bar

informative and yet amusing, as expected

davidchurbuck marketing lenovo interview
june 2008 by sogrady

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Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture - Waxy.org

as a long time fan of Alan's, and a more recent fan of his Big Picture, it's really excellent to see him get the recognition he deserves

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Lenovo's Web Marketer: Twittering's Not for Twits

an interview with Lenovo's Churbuck on Twitter, Second Life, and more

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo - O'Reilly Radar

some good questions in here

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april 2008 by sogrady

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The Big Lead » Blog Archive » Opening Day Treat: An Interview with ESPN.com Baseball Writer Keith Law

i'm fans of both Keith Law and The Big Lead, so the latter interviewing the former was convenient

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Linux.com :: Evangelist: Mozilla has "historic opportunity" to advocate for users

fascinating look at the opportunities in front of Mozilla, and the path to get there

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march 2008 by sogrady

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A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)

great interview of Matt by Jeremy which touches on PHP4 vs PHP5, next gen WP, Automattic, and more. worth the time.

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february 2008 by sogrady

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%w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 - Chatting with Adrian Holovaty

interesting interview with Adrian

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january 2008 by sogrady

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David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music

"It's not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation. We're out of contract. We have our own studio. We have this new server. What the hell else would we do?...But it only works for us because of where we are."

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Google wants your phonemes | IDGNS | News | October 23, 2007 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

"Because we're processing so much data, we have a lot of context around things like acronyms. Suddenly, the search engine seems smart like it achieved that semantic understanding, but it hasn't really. It has to do with brute force." - ergo, volume kills

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december 2007 by sogrady

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William Gibson Hates Futurists :: tyeebooks.ca

"I don't know what will happen in the future and I know that I don't know." - amen

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Ted Leung on the Air » Blog Archive » On Scoble’s Chandler interview

Ted on a Chandler interview by Scoble; haven't had luck w/ the app myself, but hope it can be a good option

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: Ari Jaaksi on Nokia and Open Source and the N770

as Stephe says, fascinating interview on the convergence of commercial providers and open source software

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Steve Ballmer: Microsoft’s incompetent youth

"Ballmer: 'Paul was good. Bill was good. Four out of 30 were good — and believe me, the rest are gone.' " - wow

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june 2007 by sogrady

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» Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com

great piece from Berlind on Google Gears; looks like i've got another Q&A coming

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may 2007 by sogrady

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The Music Fan Behind Hype Machine: Q&A With Anthony Volodkin

i'm a big, big fan of Anthony's creation, and this interview is a great look behind the scenes

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may 2007 by sogrady

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أهلا حَبِايب أهلا (Ahlan habaib, ahlan) - Miguel de Icaza

"J'y parle de nos plans d'écrire une version libre de Silverlight pour Mono." - worth reading, then

mono migueldeicaza silverlight interview
may 2007 by sogrady

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The Good Interview

"Give something back to the source. You can't just call them up and demand information; you have to tell them stuff, too, to make a conversation with you worth their while. - Buster Olney" - good advice from one of my favorite reporters

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Okajima interview - Extra Bases

QoTD: "Then you faced red-hot A-Rod. What were you thinking?

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april 2007 by sogrady

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derStandard.at

interesting interview with Novell's Friedman; been missing his take for a while

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april 2007 by sogrady

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SI.com - Writers - Alex Belth: Schilling sounds off on blogs, baseball, media - Thursday March 22, 2007 2:25PM

"I think the media has gotten to the point where they are talking down to the fans, especially in Boston. Fans don't give a s*** about the stuff that's written in the newspaper. They want the meat" - amen

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Ian Murdock: Debian "missing a big opportunity" :: Linux Format :: The website of the UK's best-selling Linux magazine

i'm assuming this interview is responsible for the bulk of vitriolic comments over on Simon's welcoming blog

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Simon Phipps, SunMink: LiveMink: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel remains one of the more interesting folks in the industry, to me; great interview from Simon (listen to his answer re: would they create Mono if Java had been open sourced) - as an aside, i thought it was mig-ELLE, rather than mig-WELL

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Rhymes with raining: CRAVE FILM & TV

"Crave Online: What is your favorite episode?

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Simon Phipps, SunMink: LiveMink: James Governor, Redmonk

great interview by Simon of James; great insights into our business model and competitive threats

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Bloggertalks.com » Alex King on Wordpress development, the community and the Share Icon project

great interview w/ Alex; lots of insight into the challenges and opportunities in front of independent developers

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february 2007 by sogrady

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YouTube - In kleiner Runde

interview w/ Tim Bray

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Interview with Matt Mullenweg by Blogging Pro

"Frankly if someone could take a product we wrote and do a better job with it then they deserve the success. It has been tried before. It’s not really something I worry about a lot." - couple of folks have linked here, but good interview

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Why SAP is interested in scripting languages: an interview with André Labahn - ThinkPHP /dev/blog

bjoern has an excellent interview with SAP's André Labahn

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october 2006 by sogrady

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On Ruby: New JRuby Interview (part 1)

the performance notes are interesting, but also read through some of the JRuby v Ruby interpreter disparities

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october 2006 by sogrady

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CNN.com - Reclusive Linux founder opens up - May 18, 2006

interesting interview with Linux

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Helzerman’s Odd Bits » James Governor, Principal Analyst and Founder, RedMonk

great interview of James by IBM's Helzerman; just for the record, while i appreciate the kind words from James, he undersells himself dramatically; he has a *very* important audience

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | 'I want to build something that grows'

great interview w/ Josh; whether or not the number's accurate, i'm happy to see a very bright, very innovative dev get his just reward

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january 2006 by sogrady

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[print version] Is Java getting better with age? | CNET News.com

"One of the general design directions for Java over the last several years has been that we had really focused on the extremely high end." - indeed, though i don't think 'tools' is the perfect answer to that problem as Gosling contends. ultimately, it's a