Archive for July, 2006
Idea No. 3: iPod Police
The NYPD should have a special program where they put out decoy iPods with tracking devices so they can find thieves. Apparently this is already done with cars in other locations. -Where this came from
Hackers and Painters (What I’m Reading, Episode 15)
This seems to be the default plan in big companies. They do it because it decreases the standard deviation of the outcome. Only a small percentage of hackers can actually design software, and it’s hard for the people running a company to pick these out. So instead of entrusting the future of the software to [...]
Day Four of the Mission: Google vs. Microsoft
As usual in my undocumented but self-understood process, I will start by iterating steps in the random orders they occur to me, until order forms. Product design: Have a search engine that lets you ask an MS employee (Gas) and a Google employee (me) any question (the default example will be “Are Microsoft and Google [...]
A short sidenote concerning Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky is wrong. In his very well known article, known as How Microsoft Lost the API War, he claims that: There are two opposing forces inside Microsoft, which I will refer to, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as The Raymond Chen Camp and The MSDN Magazine Camp. … The MSDN Magazine Camp is always trying to convince [...]