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…
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…
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…
Notice – this post will save you a massive amount of headbanging if you ever need to do anything similar to this. (Thanks to HN for posting… almost makes it worthwhile) Amazon has a really nice cloud infrastructure. It’s really easy to spin up m…
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…
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…
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…