the softer side of systems

Application Interface Design The Softer Side of Things

... dogfood. Get to a point where you can and will use it yourself. Application Interface Design The Softer Side of Things

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 13:50

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INTRODUCTION - The Hidden Side of Everything

... forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation. ... However, they can be beat at their own game. And in the face of the Internet, their informa- tional advantage is shrinking every day—as evidenced by, among other things, the falling price of cofﬁns ... about the won- derful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals....

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

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Meeting the Business Side of Google

... goals: 17 Chapter 1: Meeting the Business Side of Google 05_571435 ch01.qxd 5/21/04 11:27 PM Page 17 Chapter 1 Meeting the Business Side of Google In This Chapter ᮣ Assessing the future of Google business ... controlled their costs and tracked their returns). In time, the advantages of eBay’s system got the attention of midsize brick-and-mortar stores, which now operate eBay outlets as an essen- tial part of ... method — and fortunate timing. The typical rev- enue path of online media companies is lined on one side with advertising and on the other side with special services. Consider Yahoo!. While gaining...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

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Drawing on the funny side of the brain

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2014, 20:18

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The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis

... of the securities and life insurance industries will be brought within the scope of the TBTF doctrine, thereby expanding the scope and cost of federal ‘safety net’ guarantees.” 445 I further ... risky.” 142 2. The Unheeded Lessons of the Dotcom-Telecom Bubble and the Collapse of Enron and WorldCom Further evidence of the risks posed by financial conglomerates appeared during the boom-and-bust ... loans (and therefore shut off their remaining warehouse lines of credit to nonbank lenders) after the outbreak of the subprime financial crisis in August 2007. 286 b. The Riskiness of Nonprime...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:26

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The Bright Side of Prison Life pdf

... known of the possible coming of the fleet, they told me that only the coming of the Federal army could save them from total financial ruin. The actions of these men were in accordance with their ... wagons in the road and taking the animals away from them, the soldiers then leaving for home. There was much expectation of seeing some of the Union fleet come up the river as transports, but they ... made them mad about the actual practice by Southern whites of equality with negroes, as evidenced by the thousands of mulattoes among them. Another source of amusement to me was to bother the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Oxidative neuronal injury The dark side of ERK1/2 potx

... functions of b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of protein kinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex of the ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]). Redox regulation at each of these ... especially those in the MKP family, share a docking domain with high afﬁnity for binding ERK1/2 [58]. Several of these phosphatases are restricted either to the cytoplasm (e.g. MKP3) or to the nucleus ... indicate the presence of phosphorylated ERK1/2 in association with ﬁbrillar bundles, distended mitochondria and autophago- somes [52]. These discrete accumulations of ERK1/2 in the cytoplasm raise the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

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buede - the engineering design of systems - models and methods 2e (wiley, 2009)

... will the context of the meta- system have changed but many of the systems inside the meta-system will have changed. In fact, there may well be other developm ent systems working on some of these ... be the integration of hardware and software, a speciﬁc piece of hardware, a speciﬁc segment of the system’s software, a group of people, facilities, or a combination of all of these. As with the ... enhance the cost-effectiveness of the system in the eyes of the stakeholders. The functional and physical architectures are developed in parallel to enhance the integration of them into the allocated...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:22

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Succeeding in the project management jungle how to manage the people side of projects

... view their role as a kind of senior prof essor to the less experienced engineers, providing technical input and guidance ev en as they themselves get further and further away from the detail. These ... enough, there may be no impact, but the later in a project the y are discovered, the larger their impact on cost and the greater the time to fix them. Arun has found that driving a process of constant ... corporation. There w ere two account representatives sitting in the back of the conference room—not at the conference table—distancing themselves from the mess, but still there to support their customer. James...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 01:27

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The Other Side of Wall Street

... market—Hoofy the Bull and Boo the Bear—and told both sides of the trading story. There was always a bull case and a bear case, I thought at the time, and the residual grist was what the financial media ... a summer of debauchery straight out of a movie, a twisted tale of ptg Praise for The Other Side of Wall Street “Todd blows up the typical Wall Street stereotype and proves without a shadow of a doubt ... in life and the ramifications thereof, it was difficult to appreciate how they affected others. I was reminded of that in the summer of 2010 while spending a few days with my brother Adam during...

Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2014, 14:03

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the dark side of software engineering [electronic resource] evil on computing projects

... opposing group of professors never lost the desire to stop the project.) The Achilles ’ heel of the project was the conceptual conﬂ ict between the anonymity of the feedback and the security ... What’s the Dark Side? 1 I.1.1 Why the Dark Side? 2 I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? 3 I.1.3 How Dark is the Dark Side? 5 I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? 7 I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark Side ... into account the promising economic prospects of the offshore cooperation, the German company decided to initiate the project, regardless of the lack of support on the part of the middle manager....

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

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Succeeding in the Project Management Jungle How to Manage the People Side of Projects_1 pdf

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, the y hav e in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone. First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of lif e in the mod- ern ... through the use of squishy-sounding words like these is often derided as the use of soft skills. But the ability to get work done by understanding people is v astly undervalued in the project ... ys someone in the trenches who not only uses the process correctly but also has the people skills to match how the process is imple- mented with the capability of the team and the organization. The successful...