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File: February 2006

2006-02-28 :: mark // Internet + Software
Features Suck

There, I said it. You don’t like that? How about this then: Simplicity rules. One golden rule in software development is that there will be at least one fight about features. Why? Because of all the things you can control, time is the one thing that just keeps marching on. Throwing more hackers at a [...]

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2006-02-25 :: mark // Internet
The Five Buck Idea

Face it, startups are cool. Anyone that made it through the 90s remembers that startups were cool back then. Well guess what? They are even cooler now. So, how do you get in on the game? Let’s set the stage by thinking back to the atmosphere of the late 90s… Maybe you were in graduate [...]

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ESPN.com: Page 2 : Welcome to the Super Bowl Go read it. Bill is hilarious. One of the best Page 2′s I’ve read in ages. I wish I had witnessed the All-Star game on television at least. Oh well, time to go try and rent Charles Oakley for our next residence hall party.

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2006-02-17 :: mark // Internet
Congress v. Google

It seems pretty popular to blast Google for entering into the Chinese market with a customized, censored search product. Hell, congressmen do it, bloggers do it, and the general feeling is pretty negative (and dare we say it — anti-China). I have to ask — WTF with statements like, “Your abhorrent actions in China are [...]

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OSx86 Project – Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice I’ve been following the “run OSX on generic PC hardware” thread for, well, since it got started when Jobs announced that they had been secretly developing an x86 version in parallel for like that last 5 years. Very cool. I’ve witnessed the thing running firsthand on a Dell [...]

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