Explain it to future generations

October 3rd, 2011
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Stars Versus Great Teams

July 5th, 2011
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Star employees are worth ten to one hundred times as much as ordinary employees.

Facebook bought Friendfeed for $50 million just to get its highly talented engineers (co-founder Brett Taylor is now Facebook’s CTO). Last year, Google made a $3.5 million counteroffer to a staff engineer to keep him from going to Facebook. And this year, it paid two top product managers as much as $150 million to keep them from going to Twitter.

Stars Versus Great Teams.

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Installing mySQL PDO drivers (Ubuntu)

May 13th, 2011
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If you’re on ubuntu, try apt-get :

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

which should make

/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/pdo.so

and PDO will be available after an apache restart

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