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 Parts that stuck with me from the Reset book: "As Paul Batalden, a health care expert, once said: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” Meaning that once you change your aspiration—when you set your sights on different results—the system you have is wrong, by definition. Because the system is designed, intentionally or not, to yield the results you got

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To kickoff Women’s History Month (WHM), I was honored to be featured in a spotlight article sharing my story with my org, Digital Transformation Platform (DTP), which is a Microsoft org of more than 15k employees spanning the globe. I also wanted to share my message with you all here today on my blog. I hope it serves as a motivation to take action during and beyond WHM.Meet Marleine Daoud“My

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“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” ― Ibn Taymiyyah

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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." ― Horace

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"Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought & felt all the time." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"

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“We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.” ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

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Wondering how Amazon get their dropdown to be that fast? Find out in this nice post! 

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Last line in the movie "Flight (2012)", the son asks: "So, who are you?"; the father (Denzel Washington) replies: "That's a good question."!

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Nice video, full of interesting facts! Video details: Published on Jan 20, 2013 Subscribe to Vsauce. It's FREE! http://bit.ly/POIaN7Music by Jake Chudnow: https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnowVsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3Falling into lava video: http://youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8Flowing lava video:

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How would you really enjoy spending your life? What would you like to do if money didn't matter? What would be your profession? What would you master? What do you desire? Inspirational short video (music by Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire): Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British born American philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and

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First time to try out Python on a small project I'm working on with Andrew and it seems fun so far! It's cool to learn a new enjoyable language! :)

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It was fun to decorate my desk for Halloween @ Vision Critical. There was a contest for the best decorated department and a party with food, snacks and beer! Kids came to collect candies from our desks and people had their costumes on! It's fun to work in such an environment! 

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Have you ever been asked this question in a technical interview for a software related position: "Using the language of your choice, reverse the words in a sentence."? If so, have you ever wondered how many solutions in different languages exist? Scripting, object-oriented, functional programming, commands, and the list could go on... Thanks to Andrew for providing such a short and cool

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“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”— David PackardCo-founder of Hewlett-Packard, serving as president, CEO, and Chairman of the Board.

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In Six Feet Under, episode 5 season 2, the family was talking about a lady that had nobody in her life. They stated how awful that was and concluded that she might have been autistic thus the reason for not having anyone in her life. Then Claire, a teenager in the series, said: "I don't see why this person has to be mentally ill... just because she had a life that doesn't conform to a

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HackVan was last weekend, on Friday the 23rd of March and Saturday the 24th of March 2012, and it was awesome! I had a great time, took first steps into mobile development & was amazed by what the Vancouver tech community can accomplish in few hours! HackDays is an event that takes place across several cities in Canada. Last weekend it was here in Vancouver and located at A Thinking Ape.

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After more than 7 months of extensive search, I am finally done!! :D

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I would like to thank Jeremy Hutchings for writing this nice post: Interviewing & Dating for the Techie : Playing the game! At this moment, I am currently going through interviews, from the interviewee's side. I normally evaluate the outcome of my interviews and I sometimes really think that employers don't consider the points Jeremy has written at all anymore! As I wish what he is saying

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"Vancouver, the heaven of living and hell of job market." By Shandong Han. #Vancouver #VancouverJobs Sadly, I agree. This was written by a friend on LinkedIn, in a message for me, wishing me luck in my job search in Vancouver! 

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According to an article I just read, if you are seeking a job, you shouldn't stop the job hunt during the Holidays!! -> Looking For Work? Keep It Up Through the Holidays http://on.wsj.com/u5xu1

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Having just moved to Vancouver and living in a small place, here is the output of wishing and trying to have my little Christmas corner!  That's a small (~45cm high) Christmas tree: These are some Candy Canes in a Whiskey (Johnnie Walker) glass:  Also a Christmas Stocking: Small red Christmas bows on the doors knobs: And finally a nice background image with Santa: And here it is

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This is a very easy and fast recipe that you can do. It is especially useful in the case when you have some boneless, skinless, seasoned, frozen chicken breasts and you are tired of just eating them with their normal flavour. This is a tasty version of it! Ingredients: - 2 boneless, skinless, seasoned/unseasoned, frozen or not frozen chicken breasts - salt - pepper - oil - medium tomato -

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Sadly.. I can relate and testify to that part of the talk saying: "It used to be: Hard Work        ↓    Do Well        ↓    College        ↓      Job ... but it's not a guarantee anymore". Sir Ken Robinson gave this talk at Royal Society of Arts (RSA), then it was

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Really an amazing article! I was reading it basically to know where good employers search for great developers/employees, but it is written the other way around: it is written for employers to find great developers. It is well written, gives nice insights, simply great! So if you have a company or someday decide to do a startup and want to be successful by employing great employees, I would

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