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		<title>Praise the unintelligent user interfaces</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2009/07/13/praise-the-unintelligent-user-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Some 18 months ago I started writing a post which was (sadly ?) forgotten called &#8220;Programming as if the user experience doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;. Today I came across this wonderful post which wisely says 
	Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable. 
	Perhaps the time has come to dust off my post&#8230;

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		<title>Hunger for success?</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2007/12/22/hunger-for-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Hunger is a primitive urge that requires immediate satisfaction. It commands your thoughts and demands a short term remedy often ignoring the most obvious consequences. I find it extremely odd that it is so commonly used by the industry as a positive quality sought for in candidates particularly for management/sales positions. If hunger for success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson from Dune</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2007/06/30/a-lesson-from-dune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve literally read Frank Herbert&#8217;s Dune dozens of times1. Other than being a fantastic SF book it  contains some pearls of wisdom that apply to many situations in our day-to-day lives.
	One of the quotations I like the most is
	
		Give as few orders as possible. Once you&#8217;ve given orders on a subject, you must always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sweet smell of optimization</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2006/04/17/the-sweet-smell-of-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2006/04/17/the-sweet-smell-of-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Developers love to optimize. They love it so much they will often engage in it too early, a habit so bad it will frequently back-fire. But even the mature ones will happily pursue that ultimate sweet goal &#8211; making that code run faster or use less bandwidth, or consume less space.  We all want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2005/12/12/simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if despite the latest hype surrounding Ajax applications we'll really be using those who prove to be simple and functional rather than those which mimic their desktop ancestors with great self indulgent.]]></description>
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		<title>Keep it Simple to Understand</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2005/10/18/kistuac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Nothing is more dangerous for the development process than losing control of the project complexity (think of a star collapsing into a black hole). The team must develop a feeling for complexity and know when a task should/can not be done or when a technology or a design should not be used or followed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refactoring good, rewriting bad</title>
		<link>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2005/10/17/refactoring-good-rewriting-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://keypod.net/wordpress/2005/10/17/refactoring-good-rewriting-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shmul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["What a mess, this has to be written all over again" -- be suspicious (very suspicious) when you hear someone (possibly your inner voice) says a piece of code has to be rewritten. Most of the time it is a symptom of incomplete understanding of the problem at hand or of the SP you are using. Assuming the original code was not written by a complete idiot (which is more often than not the case) you'd better give it another shot.]]></description>
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