Jun 20 2008
There has been much moaning about the departures of really well-known names from Yahoo. Now, I don’t know any of the folks involved, but if you compare all of the criticisms about what Yahoo has not been doing over the part few years in terms of innovating and getting new products out and or [...]
Jun 05 2008
TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to “bite the bullet” and “license WindowsMobile or RIM’s Blackberry” code.
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help. Like now. I mean he’s either had a break, or he’s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]
May 12 2008
Gustavo Duarte, a programmer and blogger in Colorado wrote a very provocative article recently entitled Language Dabbling Considered Harmful where he reasons on why working, professional programmers should, more or less, stick to the languages where they have been successful and not try to get involved with new languages that come around:
Learning new programming languages [...]
Sep 19 2007
[update: Several "Wall St Insider" type sites claim this letter is a hoax... digging a little deeper, several of the people named in the letter can actually be found on LinkedIn and are working at JPMC according to their LinkedIn profiles. However, even if this is a hoax, there are plenty of people [...]
Sep 02 2007
We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP’s Archivist Anna Mancini, a private tour during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]
May 20 2006
What’s the Value of Privacy? Everything.
“A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your [...]
Mar 29 2006
It’s time for a new meme. I’ve been thinking about the all-too-pervasive acronym-cum-interjection “WTF?!”
In case you’ve been off-planet for a while, “WTF” is often applied where its situationally incorrect to actually say “What the Fuck?” I think is got its origin in a line from the (when Tom Cruise was still interesting) film [...]
Jan 31 2006
Or, out of the frying pan, and (back) into the fire.
I’ve just finished up a ~1 1/2 year stint working at a large (and, for now, nameless) Wall Street firm. I’d been out of the Wall St. scene for quite a while from 1996 though late 2004, and I tell you nothing had changed. All [...]
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