December 2011
45 posts
“Within an hour we got orders for 5 chairs and about 50 other emails protesting...”
– Priceonomics tries some Adventures in Aeron Chair Arbitrage
ZDNet: How to fix the Android update mess: Paid... →
And maybe if you pay a little more they can give you vanilla Android.
Glenn Kelman: SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out →
Forbes: Deus Ex is the Best Game of the Year, not... →
John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, Michael... →
What if the browser was just another NaClet?
Amazon Web Services: Elastic Network Interfaces in... →
Finally! Of course Amazon had to implement this in a quirky way, though.
David Ascher: You knew the old Mozilla, meet the... →
Literally the only redeeming feature of BrowserID IMO is the implication that it’s going to be built in to Firefox and OpenID is not. Wishy-washy statements about “maybe someday it’ll be in Firefox” seem self-defeating.
“The problem, as long as I’ve been in software, is the inability of...”
– Dave Winer uses Android
Robot Invader: Locomotion Smoke and Mirrors in... →
DPReview: Sony NEX-7 Review →
Pretty amazing technology.
Joey Flores: The Recording Industry Likes to Make... →
A.J. John: Odd Google Query Synonyms in Sci-Fi →
I hope he Googled for that after reading the book; the Void series has a plot you don’t want to spoil.
“Over the years, I’ve amassed piles of kit that at the time I bought them...”
– monastic
(When we said it’s upgradeable, that doesn’t mean we’re actually going to release any upgrades.)
David Hunt: Infiniband at Home — 8Gb networking on... →
Old stuff that HPC people are throwing away is still better than consumer hardware.
“It is a fundamental law of office supplies that a pen wants to be free.”
– Rands could swear it was right here…
Bunnie Huang: On Counterfeit Chips in US Military... →
Network Heresy: Defining “Fabric” in the Era of... →
“The primary purpose of the fabric is to provide raw bandwidth, and price/performance not features/performance is king.” It’s not there yet, but scalable Ethernet should become the same price as IP and easier to manage.
“Anything on TV is, almost by definition, mainstream. Even the non-mainstream...”
– xer0 pops your bubble
Building Windows 8: Protecting your digital... →
Nothing about InfoCard or Credentica.
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AnandTech: Cisco Updates E4200 Router With USB,... →
Cisco E4200 v2 Maximum Performance Dual-Band N900? Did they use the Android name generator? (BTW, hackers report that it uses Linux-unfriendly Marvell chips.)
“Shhh, now that embedded Java does everything we need, we must pretend it no...”
– scrod is on to you, Web 2.0
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RFC 6455 - The WebSocket Protocol →
Wired: What Moore's Law Means for the Future of... →
HAXLR8R Hardware Accelerator Program →
Having it in Shenzhen is a great idea; from everything I’ve read you have to be in China if you want to manufacture in China.
Bastion for Chrome →
Powered by NaCl and Google money (on second look they are charging for it).
LWN: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and... →
The Register: Amazon: The Microsoft of the cloud →
The gap-filling startups should have known that they wouldn’t survive; in many cases their implementation was necessarily worse than Amazon’s because they can’t modify the cloud itself. As for IaaS competition, I think it’s possible to do better than Amazon but so far no one has.
ECTACO jetBook Color e-reader →
1600x1200 — is that pixels or subpixels?
TechCrunch: After The Regretsy and Diaspora... →
I think PayPal hasn’t changed because (unfortunately) they don’t have to. When people compare the risk of getting screwed by PayPal to the cost of a high-risk merchant account, they’re still going to choose PayPal. I’m sure people will hate this, but I think PayPal (and all competitors) need some kind of due process regulation so that they have to either give you your money...
Freeman Dyson: How to Dispel Your Illusions →
Dyson’s book reviews are educational articles in their own right.
CNN: TV isn't broken, so why fix it? →
Actually, I would like my TV to require the fewest number of steps… to show me the next episode of Mad Men. (Seriously, Sony.)
“Tracing is no silver-bullet. Mike Pall is.”
– olov knows how to make JavaScript faster
Borders and Circuit City IPv4 Address Blocks For... →
Borders got a bid for $12 per address; the others may still be available.
Techdirt: How Labels Pulling Out Of Spotify Are... →
Sounds like damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
“Unless a shinier SunOS 4.x is really all that we are after, we as a community...”
– Jonathan Corbet reviews the works of Lennart Poettering
Glitch "Unlaunches" →
Ballsy.
LLVM 3.0 Release Notes →
“The obvious (and fun) solution is to force these private equity markets to...”
– johnrob contemplates crowdfunding