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google’s chief econ

tyler — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:33:57 +0000

Google’s chief economist on the economic implications of technology. some great comments in the article. “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

toronto tech watch

tyler — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:52 +0000

Toronto Tech Watch. My friend Dave just launched this blog.

vb gui interface

tyler — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:51:28 +0000

YouTube – CSI New York “VB GUI Interface”. i laughed out loud watching this. check out the related video that implements it the app.

chrome-fed googasm

tyler — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:25:01 +0000

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility • The Register. Another Ted Dziuba rant on the sorry state of tech reporting.

sun’s transactional memory

tyler — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:39:43 +0000

Sun may or may not be about to obliterate Oracle and Microsoft | The Register “When I was in computer science class and the topic of threads and mutexes came up, I gave it a whole hearted fuck this and took a 45-minute bathroom break. In the typical American fashion, I expected somebody to bail my ass out when I had to do this in industry.” another great Dziuba post.

this is funny only if you know linux

tyler — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:59:02 +0000

Link by Link – This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix – NYTimes.com. article on xkcd.

elastic ip addresses

tyler — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:31:22 +0000

Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses. it’s static IP addresses. that’s some terrible feature naming.

charlie rose with chris anderson and michael arrington

tyler — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:49:36 +0000

Chris Anderson and Michael Arrington: Back-to-Back on Charlie Rose. the end piece of the anderson interview on the competitive advantage of the usa is an interesting one.

tech support calls

tyler — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:30:04 +0000

Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit – New York Times “Ma’am, you do realize that there’s a jack on the keyboard itself?”

five whys

tyler — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:43:20 +0000

Five whys – Joel on Software. a good post on how to deal when shit happens.

ryan on dating

tyler — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:13:44 +0000

Ryan is giving a talk at next weeks Ignite Seattle entitled “A pseudoscience guide to geek dating: How the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life”. awesome.

yahoo formally rejects msft

tyler — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:03 +0000

The Associated Press: Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Offer. nothing like a formal rejection. and what happens when you put two flatlined companies together?

zed shaw podcast interview

tyler — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:19:42 +0000

Rubiverse::Podcast.new(”Zed Shaw on Leaving Ruby”). tech communities are way too self consumed.

guerrilla’s guide to optimizing rails

tyler — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:04:23 +0000

Nimble Method: Guerrilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications. in case you really care about rails perf.

one clumsy ship

tyler — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:43:27 +0000

How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | The Guardian. nice infographic of the underwater pipes. via boris.

veloCity waterloo

tyler — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:51:39 +0000

VeloCity Residence at Waterloo. an incubator residence for startups focusing on mobile communications, web, and new media.

notchup pays you to interview

tyler — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:46:02 +0000

Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You. that’s right, pay you to interview with them. google and facebook are on the private beta.

microsoft on virtualization

tyler — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:22:38 +0000

Microsoft preempts Hyper-V release with virtualization vision | The Register “Microsoft knows rule number one in the software game better than any other company: Never let a missing product get in the way of marketing.”

yahoo layoffs?

tyler — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:06:53 +0000

Yahoo To Cut 20% Of Its Workforce? that’s 2400 people.

sun buys mysql

tyler — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:17:02 +0000

Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion – Times Online. i really have no idea what sun’s business model is anymore.