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Remembering September 11th by Tim Marman

I will again repost what I wrote in 2006, on the 5th anniversary of the attacks. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I went to work at 1 Liberty Plaza across the street from the World Trade Center. We happened to have a global department meeting that...
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We are looking to hire good developers by Tim Marman

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge...

Happy (Belated) 5th Birthday to Loosely Coupled by Tim Marman

I started blogging on January 29th, 2003 . We've been a little heads down trying to get Notches to launch and I completely forgot to write about this, but I've now been blogging for over five years. I talked last year about my motivations for blogging...

MTA's new Trip Planner by Tim Marman

MTA recently launched a new service called Trip Planner .  I've used it a few times since I'm still learning some of the buses and trains around our new offices, and it seems to work pretty well. What I like about it more than HopStop is that it...
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CIGNA Sucks! by Tim Marman

Jason explains why ( via Jesse ). (Yeah, I'm late on this one). Syndicated from Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog | Slashstar ( rss )

Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion by Tim Marman

In my first few years in college, I took a few gut courses that older friends assured me were easy, requiring only 4 hours of work a week. I did terrible in every one. The reason, of course, was that I hated those 4 hours and avoided the work whenever...

Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas by Tim Marman

Evan Williams has an absolutely wonderful post up about evaluating a new product idea . I think Marc is spot on - the "personally compelling" criteria is the one that stands out. Last on the list, but probably the first question I ask myself is: How important...

Rest In Peace, Marc Orchant by Tim Marman

I just learned that Marc Orchant passed away over the weekend as a result of the massive coronary he suffered last week. River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home It’s a far gone lullaby sung many years...

Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team by Tim Marman

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any...

Marc Orchant suffers massive coronary by Tim Marman

Oh my. I just learned that Marc Orchant suffered a massive coronary over the weekend and is in critical condition in an Albuquerque hospital. I got a chance to meet and chat with Marc back when he was writing for the Weblogs, Inc. blogs about tablets...
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