Tuesday was sort of a pre-day for GlueCon. I flew out a day early both to try beating jet lag and to learn a bit more from the conference than I otherwise might. Travel Fun I flew on Southwest because, well, it’s cheaper. And I got what I paid for. The flight into Midway was [...]
Nope. You almost certainly paid lots of money for a license use the software, not the software itself. The 9th circuit appellate court reversed the earlier trial court’s decision, effectively revoking the doctrine of First Sale for software. Starting with the standard observation of I Am Not A Lawyer, I think the law is wrong [...]
While these thoughts are based on making a compelling display-based advertising campaign, the same principles apply to making a compelling product (along with my thoughts): Research, research, research.: You have to know where to sell your ad.My Take: In just the same way, you have to know a lot of things about a work product: [...]
Marco Arment from Tumblr shares his experience with Apple: Apple thinks reviews can take 8-30 days and web-capable apps need nudity warnings and the management interface can be buggy as shit and they don’t need us to be able to reach them and nobody really needs to take any of this very seriously. Because it’s [...]
First coined in 1987, even the Moore’s law march of time hasn’t undermined the rule. Their calculation compares the cost of holding a record (or page) permanently in memory with the cost of performing disk I/O each time the record (or page) is accessed, using appropriate fractional prices of RAM chips and disk drives. The [...]
I found this story to be rather amusing for several reasons. For starters, I’ve been around in the industry long enough to remember using almost all of these techniques as a part of my job. But, the main thing for me is that these approaches are still in use today for edge conditions. For example, [...]
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