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On Convenience
Yet again there was a big Internet kerfuffle regarding digital music and piracy. It’s been at least fifteen years now. What needs to be said has been said. There is however, a side issue of convenience that I think is … Continue reading
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Digital Identity Management
I read this article today, and it made me think of all the people who have false and/or multiple identities on the Internets. I’m one of the co-founders of Windsoc, and I have several web projects aside from that. I’ve … Continue reading
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No, You Need A Technical Co-Founder
I just read this article suggesting that entrepreneurs should learn to code and start technology-based businesses without technical co-founders. I went to a Y Combinator Q&A last night and started getting frustrated when the audience almost completely shifted the talk to the problem … Continue reading
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The Luddites are not actually the power brokers
I just read this article that gives many examples of people who have given up carrying a cellular phone. It claims that by doing so, these people end up in a position of power because others are forced to work … Continue reading
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MySQL is Great, Haters Gonna Hate
I made a mistake that I must correct. I stupidly broke my rule of only writing comments here, and made a couple comments on this post complaining about a bunch of problems in MySQL. After being a happy PostgreSQL user … Continue reading
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The New Google News
This guy Bruce Tognazzini (Tog), really doesn’t like the recent changes to Google news. The team involved appears unwilling or unable to just come clean with the fact that they screwed up completely, and, instead, are just chipping away at … Continue reading
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Techies care about education, but not enough
In a posting on LearnBoost Rafael claims that technologists care about education, but don’t care enough to actually do anything to solve the problems of education. He’s completely right, and he’s also completely wrong. He doesn’t even try to think … Continue reading
NoSQL or NoJoin?
Daniel Lamire has written an interesting post discussing the terminology we should use to refer to the increasingly popular non-relational databases such as BigTable, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc. He’s mostly discussing semantics, but it got my mind thinking on this issue … Continue reading
Not Implementing Features Is Hard
Robert O’Callahan, a Mozilla developer, has made a blog post explaining why Firefox omits certain features. Based on the headline, I thought this was going to be discussing the evils of feature creep. That is not the case. Sometimes we … Continue reading
Is Google far too much in love with engineering?
Chris over at Cnet discusses the fact that almost every single employee at Google is an engineer, and whether or not that is entirely a good thing. It’s nice if a pilot has a background in flying. It’s really quite … Continue reading
