Archive for the 'software politics' Category

Tempest in an Echo Chamber

Friday, December 28th, 2007

People are crucifying Google for sharing shared Reader items with your friends.
How absurd.  The “share” feature has been there for a long time, and WTF do people expect to happen when they hit “share”?  In fact, ever since the “share” feature has existed, that little “share” button has … gasp! … shared the item!
In fact, […]

More Jingoist H1B Politics

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

USA Today, Fox News, and others are running blindly with the US government propaganda campaign, “Chinese Spying on the Rise!“  The message you are supposed to get is that “all Chinese high-tech workers in USA are spies”.  This is part of the ongoing battle of the politicians to kick out anyone with education and talent, […]

H1-B Visa Politics

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Senators Durban and Grassley are now sounding the alarm over H1-B Visa applications, claiming that big evil Indian outsourcing firms are scamming the system to move American jobs overseas.
Sorry, but I don’t buy their reasoning.  The facts are laid out in the most prejudiced manner possible, and even then the numbers don’t add up to […]

Lessons Learned from Truemors Failure

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Truemors launched yesterday, and the blogosphere is already analyzing “what went wrong”.  Although the name sounds like a combination between “tumors” and “tremors”, it’s too early to declare it a failure.  The world needs another place to leak Apple secrets, and the voting feature will help moderate impact of hoaxes like the Engadget “scoop” yesterday.  […]

Open Sourcing Flex

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Last week I bumped into Ted Leung at a party near Moscone in San Francisco.  Since he wasn’t attending the conference, and he normally works from home here in the Northwest, I assumed he was doing something interesting.  He wouldn’t give me many details, and I figured he would blog about it soon.  Turns out […]