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GTFOffa my lawn
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit has me thinking about a conversation I had with a friend last week… The gist is that easier entry levels mean lamer entrants. Oh, we can spin it so many ways… cheaper entrants! Entrants who aren’t wasting their time on unimportant details! Or we can question what they know if they go from throwing…
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What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants was a pretty good read, but I found myself disagreeing on a fundamental point… I don’t like that it treats technology as something separate from humanity. Perhaps I’d feel differently if I hadn’t read The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution first, but I did. That book’s argument that humanity…
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if we simply make it all harder to use…
I’m not impressed by much in the virtualization space… they’re all done with their two valid use cases and are trying to expand into unnatural places. The valid use cases are the obvious data center centralization and what I’ll call general geekery. Data center centralization is a backlash against the common sysadmin practice of one…
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Software Senescence Engine
Companies, like individuals, have an inverse relationship between money, time, and age. When your company is young, you have lots of time and little money. Although it feels like there’s very little time at all because you’re continually struggling to prevail in the market, there’s actually a great deal of time available for problem-solving, and…
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Coates Laws of Suckage
Law the First: People Suck. This is nothing about particular types or roles of people, it’s just a statement of fact. I am people and I suck too. We’ve got brains hard-wired to look for free gravy and four-leaf clovers, and we spend way too much time doing it wrong, doing it over, and bickering over…
