Techdirt has an article about a little girl potentially losing her ability to improve her speech due to a patent lawsuit. Read it here. Poor little girl, evil patent-enforcing company… the usual nonsense… and I can’t take it any more. Inventin…
Some stuff just makes us lazy. TV, instead of books. Cars, instead of walking. The Cloud, instead of hosted servers. And often, when we get lazy, we also get sloppy… That’s right. The cloud has made us lazy. I can spin up a zillion machines as f…
OK… I’ve been around for a while and coding for a long time. Here are my top 3 rules which I repeat over and over and over: What problem are you solving? Not rocket science. But surprising if you ask that question how often people don’t have an …
Coding under the influence is fun. Until it’s not. Fear, Loathing and coding Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was great. But Hunter S. Thompson never coded. There were times in the early 80’s when I’d summon the junior and say Go out and get me Vodk…
I got a surprise a few weeks ago… my manager at Quest called and just said “Hey Sean, your last day is next Friday… (blah blah blah)… do you have any questions?”. I said “no” and hung up. I wrote Big Brother – the first web-based Systems and…
What a great few years this has been. I’ve always had a machine or 10 online. Initially, we had to go out and find someone willing to allow us to put one of our machines in their facility, so we could have it online. It was Co-location. It was exp…
I had SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and brutal Montreal winters guaranteed that by February, I’d be in a black pit. I really really didn’t want to take anti-depressants, and looked for another solution. I learned that the Inuit got SAD when t…
If I read one more “kill software patents” article, I’m going to puke. Joel’s is the latest: https://plus.google.com/u/0/117114202722218150209/posts/4GgaRiSyaTf Here are his 5 points: Elimination of software patents Legal fees paid by the loser in…
I do Standup Comedy. I don’t know how many patent-holding, unix-guru comedians there are out there, but I suspect I may be in a very small minority. I’ve made millions of dollars. I’ve sent millions of dollars to money heaven, with the help of the…
You don’t want to be an inventor. Really, you don’t. It’s sort of like being a crack addict with ideas, but it’s way more expensive. I’ve got 2 patents granted (see linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bbunix ), and 7 more pending… These days a …