April 2013
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March 2013
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Why I'm switching back to firefox →
Funny. I switched to Chrome for the same reasons he did and recently I’ve been using Firefox more often for the same reasons he describes.
Technical issues aside, there’s something else that’s been in the back of my mind for a while now. I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web. Google is committed to making money and knowing everything I do. Firefox...
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How I Explained REST to My Wife →
“HTTP is actually a general purpose protocol for applying verbs to nouns.”
February 2013
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts o scare...
– The Female of the Species
Rudyard Kipling 1911
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Google has killed Android (the brand) →
Android is dead! Long live Android!
I have seen the Android brand disappear over time. First, it was the Nexus, then Samsung came with the Galaxy brand, who made Android less relevant. Now, Android is just invisible…
Of course, Android is dominant. So much that saying you sell an “Android phone” makes you a cheap commodity play. Nobody wants that, they all want to be cool...
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January 2013
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concerns exploded again after the company pioneered its distinctive glass...
– Why Coke took the Cocaine out of its soda.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/why-we-took-cocaine-out-of-soda/272694/
Here was the market doing something blatantly dishonest. I never imagined that...
– Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-28/libor-lies-revealed-in-rigging-of-300-trillion-benchmark.html
This could be a fun experiment. Let me know if it...
It should be easy to partition a hard drive into 4 evenly sized partitions and then install 4 different cloud storage services to each partition.
After that, I wonder if you could combine the partitions into an encrypted RAID 5 and have the striping sync over the different services.
If that works, could you then repeat it multiple computers and have them synced and sharing the same data?
I...
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