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March 15 2012
Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
"I am willing to pay for a lot of Google's free service to avoid advertising and harvesting my private data."January 27 2012
Beautiful Code: Another Level of Indirection
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." - Butler Lampson "'All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.' But that usually will create another problem." - David WheelerNovember 13 2011
10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College | TechCrunch
"And what is good writing? It’s not an opinion. Or a rant. Or a thesis with logical steps, a deep cavern underneath, beautiful horizons and mountaintops at the top. It’s blood. It’s Carrie-style blood. Where everyone has been fooling you until that exact moment when now, with the psychic power of the written word, you spray pig blood everywhere, at everyone, and most of all you are covered in blood yourself, the same blood that pushed you out of your mother’s womb, until just the act of writing itself is a birth, a separation between the old you and the new you—the you that can no longer take the words back, the words that now must live and breathe and mature and either make something of themselves in life, or remain one of the little blips that reminds us of how small we really are in an infinite universe."August 13 2011
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
"...you're all very complex. I actually consider that a feature. Your relationships are even more complex. I usually think of those as features. But sometimes they're bugs. We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them." -- Larry WallNick Farina - An iOS Developer Takes on Android
"Java is a high level programming language. It’s unproductive to have an opinion about it."Jason sent me this interesting article about developing on Android when coming from iOS.
August 04 2011
In 1959, mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell had two things he wanted to say to people of the future
"The intellectual thing I should want to say is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.The moral thing I should wish to say…I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more closely and closely interconnected we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." - Bertrand Russell
October 26 2010
You Can Face Reality - Less Wrong
What is true is already so.Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
-- Eugene Gendlin
July 05 2010
Plastic Antibodies Save the Lives of Mice, Are Humans Next? | Singularity Hub
"Science is more fun when it’s slightly confusing."June 26 2010
January 18 2010
IP Lawyer: If You Are Against Software Patents, You Are Against Innovation | Techdirt
"As a result of making everything extremely complex, there could come new innovative business models around IP Maximalism approach to software design. Take acting or the music business as an example. There could come into existence things such as "Programmer Guilds" who will assist folks in understanding and properly licensing code. There could also come into existence things such as "Unions" as well, which will ensure it's members apply proper licensing techniques into their products. There would also be "Coding Assistants" and "Coding Producers", and more interns. Lots of interns. As well as others whose roles remain yet undefined. Basically, it would do much to increase overhead within the industry. None of which do much to motivate the industry to bring more creative user-friendly software to the market, but would accomplish a great deal in raising the barriers of entry for new companies that may look to the software industry as a livelihood."July 01 2009
March 15 2009
Gary Hustwit, director of Objectified, talks design, baby strollers, and streamlining our lifestyles - Boing Boing Gadgets
"If I buy a chair now, I have to say to myself, Will I keep this chair the rest of my life? Is this something I won't get bored with? I don't mind spending more for an object if it's the highest quality, and if I think it's going to last. Obviously that's harder with gadgets and tech items, but for everything else in my life, I'm approaching consumption differently. I want to simplify my life, which includes all the stuff around me. It's not that I want to stop buying things altogether, I just want to streamline my lifestyle. Maybe that's just me. But at several times during the making of the film, I've wanted to get rid of all my possessions."March 04 2009
How Boxxy brought the web to its knees | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So when our future digital archaeologists start looking back at our actions, they'll come across Boxxy and look confused. How on earth do you relate that story in a way that makes sense in 100 years, given that it makes basically no sense right now? That's partly what I love about the internet - and partly what makes my brain hurt."March 03 2009
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
"JavaScript is the duct tape of the Web." "After a while you have to wonder if it's worth it -- the money model, I mean. Is finance worth the cost of being involved with the finance?" "Retired people. The old people can't hold down jobs in the market. Man, there's a lot of 'em. Billions. What are our old people supposed to do with themselves? Websurf, I'm thinking. They're wise, they're knowledgeable, they're generous by nature; the 21st century is destined to be an old people's century. Even the Chinese, Mexicans, Brazilians will be old. Can't the web make some use of them, all that wisdom and talent, outside the market?" "The cure for panic is action. Coherent action is great; for a scatterbrained web society, that may be a bit much to ask. Well, any action is better than whining. We can do better." "I'm not gonna tell you what to do. I'm an artist, I'm not running for office and I don't want any of your money. Just talk among yourselves."February 21 2009
LGJ: Virtual Taxation - Joystiq
"What's next? A 10% tax on your monopoly money income?" " I'd prefer the IRS treat the SL avatar as a foreign citizen and the income as a foreign-earned and only tax the transfer of funds from the foreign entity to the US tax-paying entity, if they want to handle this under the federal scheme. I think it's best handled under a state tax scheme though." Another user points out that virtual money is more like capital gains than incomeEVE Online | EVE Insider | Forums
"illegal metagaming"... I like the concision of that phraseNovember 25 2008
November 13 2008
kiwitobes.com » The “excluded middle” of technical books
"the Law of Conservation of Documentation, which states that documentation is neither created nor destroyed, but simply changes format."
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