James Hague had an interesting blog post – “Do you still want to be doing this when you’re 50?” Essentially saying that “Large scale, high stress coding is a young man’s game”. Maybe if you’re a “recovered programmer” like James, though… Last Ma…
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Udid it… 350K hits on a little server in less than 24h
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I work at night. Late. Lately, all night. More or less… hacking away in the complete peace and quiet. And I periodically check Hacker News – and sometimes, like yesterday morning I submit something. #antisec had gotten ahold of 12 million iphone…
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Cross Platform Mobile Development tools and my latest invention…
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So I’ve just filed another provisional patent; this time for a really cool thingy (technical term) that will let your control cloud bits (more jargon) from your mobile device… A provisional patent is cool. It lets you file your invention with th…
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Painful lessons – Porting Centos 5.8 from Virtualbox to Amazon EC2
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Twitter – create the Defensive Patent Foundation now!
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I’ve been having a nice quiet time, not a lot going on to upset me. Until this morning when I read the latest via HackerNews http://news.ycombinator.com/ about The Innovator’s Patent Agreement: https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreemen…
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Patents don’t silence little girls… but infringment makes them cry.
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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…
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A couple of thoughts about patents…
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How much cloud do you *really* need?
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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…