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There’s been some great discussions about the state of programming. Confession: I’m much more of a sysadmin and architecture guy than anything else at this point. If it doesn’t have a quick configuration file or a GUI, at this point, I don’t do much with it because I don’t have …
Besides the obvious, the thing that pisses me off most about Google Buzz is having to mark things read twice — once in google reader, once in Buzz. Still experimenting to see if I can hide/unfollow people in Google Reader and not have them unfollowed in Buzz, or vice …
I’m happy to see it; I’m happy to be involved in it.
Sun has some of the best ideas in the world. From a creativity point of view, they’re pretty amazing. From an implementation point of view, with some notable exceptions (ex: Fishworks), they’re pitiful. Sun couldn’t get laid in …
Check this out:
RHN Fail
Yeah, that’s what you see when you visit rhn.redhat.com — which you need to use to administer redhat subscriptions. I can’t get my servers to subscribe while the site’s down, and I …
Software problems are the #1 thing that will keep an Airbus A380 on the ground. Yes, airplanes are complicated things … but at the same time, not much is required to keep most of them in the air.
The thing that speaks volumes to me about these problems are …
Yesterday, a small disaster struck the community I live in. 72,000 people were asked to evacuate their homes and shelter south of the city because officials felt they were at risk of inhaling toxic fumes from an accidental chemical warehouse fire.
Briefly, chatter about the evacuation caused the word “Bryan” …
The guys who sell kitchen gadgets on street corners in New York and the boardwalks of New Jersey are the ultimate salespeople. I’ve run across several excellent profiles that study exactly how they sell and why they’re so successful.
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Looks like someone has licensed FASA’s old catalog of intellectual property from Microsoft… should be interesting to see what comes out of this.
Paul Graham (Y Combinator, the first spam filter, and the first web-based app: Viaweb) is one of the smartest guys on the internet when it comes to startups. He makes some great points in his article about placing controls on processes in big companies and small startups. His thesis …
Now Drizzle. I do not get cloud computing (maybe someone can explain it to me). Its fancy, its hype and I am sure there are plenty of people that need it, next to the other 99% that do not.
There’s the old saying about missing the forest for the tree, but …
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