I’m sure they’ll be making fun of the midwest and my old hometown, but I’ll still go and see it.

I always laugh when ever someone has a commercial that states moving at the speed of business. I’ve seen the speed of business and its damn slow!

In a previous life, way back when we were first developing our appliances, we shipped on Sun v100 servers. They were cheap boxes that packed quite a bit of power under the hood. Sun had on their site that servers shipped within 3-5 business days.

Interactive Cloud – Nicholas Weaver(@lynxbat) from Nicholas Weaver on Vimeo.

Gotta admit, I’m pretty impressed with this. Nice Hack!

There are 3 basic rules to software programming. Most people don’t know them. Or if they do, they probably don’t know how to properly articulate them. So I’m going to spell out the 3 rules for you. This was talked about a lot at my last job early on when dealing with problems and support issues. Just about everything came back to one of these 3 rules, and unfortunately, rule 3 was more popular than even we believed.

If you are sick to the point where you are praying to the porcelain throne, you are too sick to be on call. Make sure you get that changed.