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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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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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…
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three simple rules for geeks
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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 …
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fear, loathing and coding
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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…
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We sold out…
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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…
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Virtual Private Servers – the Wild West of Hosting
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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…
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Depression, SAD, and Zhineng Qigong
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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…
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Software patents and pony dung…
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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…