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The Story of The SCO Group

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:28:09 -0800

The Story of The SCO Group: This story nicely demonstrates that stupidity and greed do not a business plan make. It’s amusing to think of the untold numbers of morons that lost money betting on their ridiculous claims. What’s amazing is that even when they knew they had nothing at all, they kept pursuing the case, probably hoping for a buyout. Thankfully IBM stuck to their guns.

"Listen these next few days to your friends to get (the) answers you seek."

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:24:22 -0800

“Listen these next few days to your friends to get (the) answers you seek.”

- Fortune cookie

Slashdot on Sun's Amber Road systems

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:27:48 -0800

Slashdot on Sun's Amber Road systems: What I like about the comments on this page is that they very neatly illustrate the typical Slashdot discussion. Loads of geek morons that think they’re FSM’s gift to IT and have basically no understanding of what Enterprise means, let alone what small businesses are willing to spend money on. I worked for a startup that paid for Perforce and Atlassian’s suite of products. Why not Subversion and MediaWiki, you ask? Because they wanted reliability and support, not another in-house geek-built solution they would have to maintain indefinitely.

Prada wallpaper (image)

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:35:12 -0800

Prada wallpaper (image): It all makes perfect sense to me, except for the utility pole near the right side.

REST is Unamerican

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:55:22 -0800

REST is Unamerican: My fellow Americans, stand up for your right to freedom. Down with openness and constraints, up with SOA and WS-*. Long live SOAP!

Comcast bill going through the roof

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:59:33 -0700

I have made no changes to our cable service and yet in the last two months, the bill has increased by $10. Two months ago it was $54. Last month it was $60. This month it’s $64. This is on top of the already inflated rate, which is five times the rate of inflation. At this rate we’ll be cancelling the service by the end of the year.

How the SEC changed the game

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:48:39 -0700

How the SEC changed the game: Campos: “…keep my fingers crossed.” Fools, all of them. Even I’m not that careless with money, and they’re supposed to be the experts.

Unfortunately an all too brief introduction to clustering...

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:35:31 -0700

Unfortunately an all too brief introduction to clustering algorithms. Approaches such as these are necessary when you have very large data sets, and performing your calculation across the entire set would exhaust the available resources. A good example is record linking, taking two large sets of records that have similar data, and determining those that are equivalent.

“Whole” fish for half price! If I found the other...

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:51:32 -0700

“Whole” fish for half price! If I found the other “whole” of the fish, what would I halve?

Judge and prosecutor have affair

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:53:04 -0700

Judge and prosecutor have affair: It’s because of shit like this that I have no faith in our judicial system. Not because the affair existed, that I can understand, but because the County bar had full knowledge of this and did nothing. Shame on all of you.

"Surfing the Internet today is like unprotected sex with strangers; Chrome is the condom of the..."

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:23:35 -0700

“Surfing the Internet today is like unprotected sex with strangers; Chrome is the condom of the cloud.”

- Sam Johnston on Google Chrome (http://samj.net/2008/09/google-chrome-cloud-operating.html) — He forgot to mention that the condom has a hole, and because of the EULA, Google owns all of your offspring.

"It’s “Advanced Rails”, by Brian Ediger. The intro is a detailed overview of all..."

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:24 -0700

“It’s “Advanced Rails”, by Brian Ediger. The intro is a detailed overview of all the Ruby magic that helps make Rails the labyrinthine black box of impenetrably obfuscated smoke and mirrors that give us all so much joy and pleasure.”

- Gregory Murphy when asked about a Ruby book recommendation.

Patenting the absurd

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:55:59 -0700

Patenting the absurd: This is why I am not impressed when I hear that someone has a lot of patents. Getting a patent is nothing — just submit anything, pay the fee, and wait a few years. Any idiot can do that, as is clearly demonstrated in this patent application.

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:58:47 -0700

Hadoop: When grownups do open source: Best article I’ve read so far this month. Yes, he’s a little harsh, but I think he’s right.

"We also learn to program mostly by memorizing rules: Write short functions. Order your resource..."

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:33:50 -0700

“We also learn to program mostly by memorizing rules: Write short functions. Order your resource locks. Save your work regularly. Don’t override your pure virtual private abstract copy destructor operator without sacrificing a goat to Bjarne. You know. Rules.”

- http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/what-you-need-to-know

Mojave is the new Pepsi

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:56:20 -0700

Mojave is the new Pepsi: Insightful analysis of the arguably pointless and insulting Mojave “experiment” by Microsoft. Of course, I don’t use any Microsoft products, at all, and I thank Apple for that.

10 things not to worry about

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:49:57 -0700

10 things not to worry about: I’ve been eating hot dogs for 30+ years, and I’m not going to stop because some nutter says I should. Great list of seemingly plausible things you don’t have to worry about.

Yet another place I will never live

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:50:26 -0700

Yet another place I will never live: “Not suspicious” my ass. Sounds to me like the local government is collaborating with the developer. Just another place I won’t be moving to any time soon.

Carl Icahn: Idiot and Destroyer of companies

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:49:27 -0700

Carl Icahn: Idiot and Destroyer of companies: The guy can barely make up his mind, doesn’t have a clue about technology, has a long history of destroying companies, has no idea what to do with Yahoo!, yet the arrogant bastard wants to take over the company. Isn’t America wonderful?

The French discover hamburgers

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:41:10 -0700

The French discover hamburgers: Makes me want to travel to Paris just so I can try out these burgers. They sound delicious.