Archive for the 'smart people' Category

Hammering Thumbs

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Blake Ross talks about how the old Netscape Browser was one big WTF.  His post led me to one of the old Netscape devs (everyone knows jwz) claiming that, “to a database person, every nail looks like a thumb.”
It’s lovely, because it’s in the same post claiming that you would be crazy to use anything […]

VCs and Taint

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Dare has an interesting post on the way that VCs are now bragging about how they steer clear of anywhere Google might go.  I’ve noticed that VCs often think in “big dog”, “Moneyball”, “old boy” terms, so it’s not surprising.  That’s the challenge for Umair; he covers all of the same topics as the VCs, […]

When Privacy is Bad: In Defense of Google

Monday, August 21st, 2006

As much as I love to see people questioning Google’s stewardship of ”all the world’s information”, I have to defend Google on this one.  An anonymous poster claiming to be from MSFT is over on a Google blog –using the AOL data leak as a way to smear Google.  That’s just plain wrong; and in the context of […]

Digg Humor

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Now this is funny.  Reddit links to a digg story, planted to link back to the same reddit story.

OMWatch?

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

GigaOM is now a full-time job, meaning that Om will be blessing us with higher volume of his incisive analyses.  It is a wonderful thing; people pay lots of money for the kind of insights he offers.  The only problem is that it now becomes a full time job for his readers to digest all […]