Some metrics have been shown to be clear indicators of good performance in IT teams. Hopefully the following equations are clear enough. 1./ Number of metrics minus number of metrics known by employees 2./ Time in day minus time spent on developing metrics 3./ Number of metrics forgotten divided by Number of managers who care about metrics

When will website ads be forced to contain the same contrast ratio's as the rest of the website? Electric green on black, flashing an inverted palette, is visually louder than the main content!

Let's hope they don't buy the MSDN license.

The term "hacker" was coined long before computers and had nothing to do with sabotage or bypassing computer security. This is just the meaning it has been given over the past thirty years by journalist and the media at large. The term referred to the activities of people who were curious about the inner workings of devices and not satisfied with assuming a device was functioning to its full potential because a manufacturer told them so. An example of this would be opening up a toaster, seeing a method in which heat could be focused better, and modifying the toaster to perform better than before. I'd argue that my great uncle was a hacker because he modified a plumbing system for his dairy farm so that under heavy load he could place a sack of potatoes on a platform and create higher pressure to empty the system faster.