Wednesday, October 12, 2011
This may be the only thing I’ve ever read that made me actually want to work at Google. First off, ignore the stupid framing and scroll down to the actual content. Let me pick some quotes. Writing about Amazon: “Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways [...]
The results reported here about this Brown Univeristy study have been known since at least the 1970s. I think I read about them in the 1980s. They make for an interesting case study in how hard it is to change some things. “Starting times were shifted from 8 to 8:30. All class times were [...]
I dropped a friend off at the suburban train station in the intense nor-easter that dumped 10 inches of rain on us recently. My friend has taken to wearing a very handsome bowler hat, of which I am slightly jealous. The wind plucked his hat off and sent it rolling around the parking lot in [...]
I’m writing this because Microsoft recently granted a limited license for some awesome intellectual property they acquired two years ago. I want to temper the press accounts that are tending suggest they granted a generous license. Almost immediately upon the wide spread adoption of patents industries fell into gridlock. In a classic game of [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A few people recommended this long talk by Van Jacobson, one of the many fathers of the Internet where in he argues for the need with a break with the past, something new in network architecture. What he is saying here has some overlap with stuff I’ve been interested in, i.e. push. He argues that [...]
In this morning’s batch of bargain shopping news feeds appears this already exhausted offer. For nine dollars Target was selling a gadget from GE that looks like a light switch; you toggle it’s toggle and it then sends a radio signal to a module across the room to turn on a lamp. Since I live in [...]
Google has signaled that they would like to see wave widely adopted. In service of that goal they have a dot-org site which reveals a rough draft for a design that enables wave servers to interoperate so their users can collaborate. But, the whole story is much more complex. There is a lot to do before their [...]
Wave is neat and I currently think it will be very widely adopted. This note is quick summary of what it appears to be. This is very impressionistic. The specifications are amazingly rough! I’m not sure I’d call this a platform but I’m sure other people will. It certainly creates a large option space for building things. [...]
I spent a few years working a few houses down the street from the Semantic Web and I came to have serious doubts about the it. My concerns ranged from irritations with the specifications through frustrations with interoperability and tools, and on into angry critiques about innocence in the execution of the standard’s effort. But yet, I remain a thoroughly enthusiastic [...]
The term “platform” misleads people. The metaphor is flawed. It suggests land, and it can be made to work, if you insist. Accepting the metaphor then applications are built on the platform, like houses on the landscape. I read recently a brief summary of why even if you set aside the housing bubble the [...]
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