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Isn't About Time To Kill the Patent System Altogether? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the first fully mechanical cotton gin and patented it soon after. It didn't take long for people to copy it left and right and he tried to sue them but only a later change...
Why Can't Someone Do An Airline Startup Like Apple? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I hate flying, and yet I work for a travel company (but not an airline). The airline business is one of the few I know where its customers are lied to about prices, treated like cattle, shoveled into ...
Given Enough Data, Could You Build an Internet Lie Detector? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Publishing less than truthful or inaccurate information has always been possible since the dawn of writing, but on the internet it's trivial. Google News and Techmeme among other sites have algorithm...
How a Fox, a Chicken, a Teacher and a Lame VP Made Me A Programmer 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I've been programming professionally for 31 years this October. During that time there have been few periods greater than 2 weeks that I haven't written some kind of code. I never expected to be a pr...
I'm Sorry But The Revolution In Smartphones Is Long Over 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I am going to buy an iPhone 5 and turn in my iPhone 4. Reading many of comments on various sites (particularly AnandTech) were crazy in how all the people acted as if Apple had just announced a new ph...
How To Succeed At a Job Interview Without Really Trying 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
First thing that you should do is show up late; never look at one of the many fine maps on the internet showing traffic and construction. This would demonstrate common sense which is something no empl...
How Much Difference Can Capitalization Make? 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
In our iPad app we have some code that parses a special datetime format generated in our web service layer, and then determines what day of the week the date is. Pretty innocuous stuff. Worked like a ...
Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Do You Really Want To Be Doing This at 50? "But large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that's a young man's game." No, it's a stupid person's game (sure it's mostly men, but not 100%)....
The Week 100,000 Visitors Read My Blog 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Last thursday I wrote the previous blog entry, a quick response to a post I read where the author thought coding was mostly for the young. I write stuff here when the muse strikes but I never worry ab...
The Venture Capitalists, They Must Be Crazy 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Reading about Color, the mobile startup that began with around 40 million dollars and then produced a lame app, either shutting down or not made me think some about venture capitalists. To be such a ...
