HBS gets tough on ethics. Are they right?
Boston.com: Harvard rejects 119 accused of hacking. Following up the revelation that the third party company that manages online B-school apps got hacked, it looks like HBS (along with the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon) is taking a hard line on admissions and blanket rejecting the 119 people whose admission files were hacked, while other [...]
In defense of plain ol’ SQL
Philip Greenspun Weblog: How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?. I’m less interested in Philip’s answer than I am in the methodology: simple SQL select statements that give you very important product design data.
People talk about “data mining” and “business intelligence” as though they’re complicated, new skill sets, but really all you need [...]
Managing aggregator overlap
Brent Simmons talks about the issues with feed items that are about the same thing showing up in an RSS aggregator. I’m reposting the comment I made on his post here because I think managing the relationships between items is an important feature for RSS aggregators:
The ability to group feed items together based on what [...]
Hell freezes over. In other news…
Boston Globe: Big Dig’s changes ease I-93 commute. Wow. It seems like we’ve been reading for months about cost overruns, leaks, falling fireproofing material, and plagues of giant boils in the Big Dig. How nice to read that at least the final configuration of the southbound lanes improves traffic flow. Thank goodness something went right…
