You are looking at posts that were written in the month of September in the year 2006.
Posted on September 16th, 2006 by Chris.
Categories: Business/The Software Industry, Chris, General/Misc., Politics.
A while ago I wrote a flamebaitish entry where I said that your privacy should never depend on the trustworthiness of another person or company. After thinking about it a little, it occured to me that in essence, what we’re looking for is DRM, but in reverse.
Posted on September 16th, 2006 by Tim.
Categories: General/Misc..
I’ve finally changed my homepage from www.google.com. My new homepage is now www.shellrevealed.com. This is a new site that was just launched by the team I interned with at Microsoft, and has some fantastic blog posts and information, and it’s only been up for a week so far!
Anyway, it’s sort of pointless to have google as my homepage, since I can access google pretty easily from the address bar and search bar of Opera.
Posted on September 14th, 2006 by Tim.
Categories: Politics, Programming, Tim.
For some reason I was googling Richard Stallman today and came accross a something that he wrote concerning Harry Potter. What intrigued me was not the content of the article, but the copyright at the bottom:
copyright (c) 2005 Richard Stallman
Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are permitted provided this notice is preserved.
I find it strange that he would place a copyright notice on his work at all. Isn’t this the man who so vehemently opposes copyright and patent laws? Why is his article not released into the public domain, where I can redistribute the work without presving said notice?
Seems ironic, don’t you think?
~Tim
Posted on September 11th, 2006 by Tim.
Categories: General/Misc..
It seems like my blog posts are always popular when I talk about Joel Spolsky. On the topic of Joel, I recently read one of his blog posts where he mentions that he lost an intern to Microsoft:
Last year we set the application deadline for internships to February 1st, which was fine, and the deadline did a good job of forcing students to get off their butts and apply, but we made the mistake of not considering applications until they were all in, which we thought would be most fair. It was fair, but it also meant that by the time we even looked at the resumes, some great applicants had already accepted summer jobs at Microsoft. Grr…
I dont know if he lost more than one intern to MS, but I definately met one of the interns he was talking about. He had applied to Fog Creek and MS, and heard back from MS first. Microsoft generally gives you about a week to get back to them on whether you want to accept the offer or not (which sounds heavy-handed, but is unfortunately not unusual with technical internships). So as a result, my friend ended up working at MS instead of Fog Creek.
Fun stuff.
~Tim