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Rant 3000: Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Friday, October 8, 2010. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. China is still stuck in the dark age of human freedom. Fortunately, some Chinese are waking up and trying to make a difference:. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. The Chinese cannot continue to send their best and brightest overseas to escape tyranny and oppression. Sooner or later, and let's hope sooner, they will need to stop blocking Facebook, shut down their Great Firewall, and join the rest of the civilized world. China is still stuck in t...
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Rant 3000: 10/07/10
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Thursday, October 7, 2010. Anti-Rant: Berkeley Bionics eLEGS. This site will take a brief respite from ranting to anti-rant about the Berkeley Bionics eLEGS Demonstration. This is one of the best new technologies I've seen in a long time: restoring walking ability to paraplegics. Not just a pie-in-the-sky demonstrator, an actual technology, with actual paraplegics walking. Amazing. Having had an uncle who was paraplegic, and also a technology μManiac,. Read more at http:/ berkeleybionics.com/. REST is fu...
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Rant 3000: Why using REST will kill your project
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Monday, November 15, 2010. Why using REST will kill your project. REST is fun, but as with most things that are fun, it can also kill you. First off, if you don't know what it is, and don't be ashamed because I missed the boat for several years after it came out, go to the wikipedia entry. Everything looks nice and standard and "best practices" buzzword compliant future-proof, doesn't it? The core problem is architectural: using a high-latency high-overhead interface in internal APIs. This is where R...
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Rant 3000: Why Mobile Apps Are Obsolete
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Why Mobile Apps Are Obsolete. Everywhere in the software development world today you hear about mobile apps. iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian, even old J2ME. More and more on-handset applications available, 100,000, 250,000, growing and growing, from GrandTheftTrademark LXXVIII. But don't be deceived. Mobile apps are dead. And yet, day by day desktop apps are being replicated on the web. Sometimes better than what was there before. Increasingly they are replacing deskto...The r...
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Rant 3000: 11/15/10
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Monday, November 15, 2010. Why using REST will kill your project. REST is fun, but as with most things that are fun, it can also kill you. First off, if you don't know what it is, and don't be ashamed because I missed the boat for several years after it came out, go to the wikipedia entry. Everything looks nice and standard and "best practices" buzzword compliant future-proof, doesn't it? The core problem is architectural: using a high-latency high-overhead interface in internal APIs. This is where R...
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Rant 3000: 10/08/10
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Friday, October 8, 2010. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. China is still stuck in the dark age of human freedom. Fortunately, some Chinese are waking up and trying to make a difference:. Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize. The Chinese cannot continue to send their best and brightest overseas to escape tyranny and oppression. Sooner or later, and let's hope sooner, they will need to stop blocking Facebook, shut down their Great Firewall, and join the rest of the civilized world. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Rant 3000: Why I Don't Give a Rat's Ass About Open Source
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Thursday, October 7, 2010. Why I Don't Give a Rat's Ass About Open Source. Lots of programmers think open source is a good thing and the future of software. I think they're full of shit. All the best and latest software is proprietary. What might we consider to be the most advanced software running around the globe? Or as the great Charles Myron Lowell put it:. Programming Myth #1: Users Care About Elegance.". I don't care, and neither should you. October 7, 2010 at 5:49 AM. Or kestrel at twitter? Also, ...
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Rant 3000: Real Programmers Don't Do Conferences
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Monday, October 4, 2010. Real Programmers Don't Do Conferences. You know these types, these Bamboccioni. If you know anything about programming. You may have been one. You may even be one. But we all can appreciate who they are. At the end of the day, they're the ones that actually make our computers do something useful. Now I know what you're going to say. What about Linus? Insert your favorite tech god here. So who's going to conferences, if not Real Programmers? So enjoy your cocktail shrimp, your hot...
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Rant 3000: 11/18/10
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Why Mobile Apps Are Obsolete. Everywhere in the software development world today you hear about mobile apps. iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian, even old J2ME. More and more on-handset applications available, 100,000, 250,000, growing and growing, from GrandTheftTrademark LXXVIII. But don't be deceived. Mobile apps are dead. And yet, day by day desktop apps are being replicated on the web. Sometimes better than what was there before. Increasingly they are replacing deskto...The r...
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