April 2012
4 posts
Don't Shy Away From Opportunity To Teach
Re: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3825122
A few weeks ago I responded to a comment on Hacker News, where one of the authors of Meteor was thinking of removing the term REST from their website - in fear that it would be confusing to new developers.
This was my response, ”Don’t shy away from opportunity to teach. Just make sure you show it as a link, perhaps that means a simple...
Re: "How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made...
I read Revealed: How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B over at VentureBeat the other day.
Apparently Instagram was a paranoid-based purchase by Mark Zuckerberg.
I wrote a comment which garnered “7 Likes 13 likes,”
“If the buy decision was based on paranoia, and Facebook was that worried that Twitter acquiring Instagram was enough to topple Facebook -...
18 Years In Tech; Today's my birthday
I turn 29 today, and I’ve been doing some form of web development since the age 11. Kind of shocking.
I know my perception of the world has been defined by it and will give me the tools, and knowhow, that I hope will allow me to help shape the future in a big way.
I told myself 3 years ago, on the same day, that if my projects weren’t moving along at a good pace then I would stop all...
Twitter's "Patent Hack"
Fred wrote a great overview on AVC today on Twitter’s “Patent Hack.”
Towards the end he wrote, “software and business method patents are an enemy of innovation in the tech sector.” Perhaps Fred is just focusing on a more narrow battle, one he is familiar with - though I felt the need to expand on it.
Patents are an enemy of all sectors. If we eliminated them then...
