Tim O’Reilly has clarified his opposition to the CA proposed law requiring California government to use socialist software. He explains that it’s a violation of “Freedom Zero“, the exercise of free will. Dave Winer’s reason for opposition was simpler, “they’re out of their minds.“
It’s funny that we have all of this political activity going on […]
Yesterday we had lunch with some friends who recently moved from Toronto to Vancouver, B.C. Driving from Seattle to their place in North Vancouver took about 4 hours, since the border crossing is so slow. It was nice to see them again.
Before headingback, we stopped for dinner at a place we discovered about two years […]
Yesterday we had lunch with some friends who recently moved from Toronto to Vancouver, B.C. Driving from Seattle to their place in North Vancouver took about 4 hours, since the border crossing is so slow. It was nice to see them again.
Before headingback, we stopped for dinner at a place we discovered about two years […]
It seems to be a convention to define a C-language macro called “LONGLONG” for 64-bit values.The word”long” is Chinese for “dragon”, so “longlong” is the nickname of nearly every Chinese boy born in 2000 (since the year 2000 was the Chinese “year of the golden Dragon”). The name “longlong” uses 64 bits, but could be […]
Ray Ozzie has great perspective on the untapped power of network computing. Networks are the neurotransmitter of the universal mind. Today he is talking about how a shared copy of a document is not technically a violation of the “only handle information once” principle. In fact, a system where a document is stored only once […]