Sol Young

Philip Greenspun, a CompSci professor at MIT, wrote a nice post. Something most twenty and thirty somethings don’t want to hear, but should anyway…
http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents
Actually, I feel challenged to prove him wrong.

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After reading this great, hilarious, post on upgrading to XP (yes, you read that right - this isn’t a Vista upgrade), I decided to take the plunge. I’ve been punished long enough for using Vista Ultimate in my VMware environment and portable laptop. It’s been a nice OS, but performance is in the toilet and I can’t [...]

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Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.
Install Windows XP or Vista, your [...]

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Tim O’Reilly twittered this article on the five reasons Nokia should put a bid in on Yahoo!
I’d go for that. I’ve written about what I like about Yahoo! and the reasons I like them as a company without search. Nokia making a play for Yahoo! makes sense. It creates a strong combination as a mobile [...]

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iofy has a subscription to the O’Reilly Safari. It allows complete online access to O’Reilly’s entire line of books, as well as books they still have in the works. As a tech company, we thrive on this.
Lately I’ve hooked up bookmarks on my iPhone to titles I like. At any time, a single click lands [...]

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My dev team is prepping the release of our REST / RSS / JavaScript based account management this week. It marks the completion of building, then harnessing, a suite of RESTful RSS 2.0 feed based web services. The idea has been “avoid people wasting time, working on stuff they suck at focus developers on code [...]

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I’m reading more and more about IT in Asia having trouble retaining technically competent employees. Salaries are growing to impressive levels. In Singapore, salaries are closing in on Silicon Valley levels. With the present competition for talent growth in that country, salaries will soon be greater there.
<prediction>We won’t be looking at an all-out brain-drain, but with the present economic climate in the US and the [...]

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