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Hello again. Long time no blog.
I didn't really plan on taking a hiatus, but sometimes these things happen. I am going to try to resume a normal blogging schedule now. We'll see how it goes.
I've been here, in NYC, but not really getting out much. I have been doing a lot of coding. More on that in following posts.
I am also about to buy a new server and move all the sites from the computer in California to the new server which will be colocated here in NYC. There are some difficult decisions surrounding this purchase, so more on that in following posts as well.
And, lastly, I am also incorporating a company that hopes to use the new system I have just built, plus the new server I am about to buy, to create a business.
This blog will be details and notes from that effort. Probably it will be pretty similar to the stuff I was blogging about before, although hopefully the business quest will give it a little more focus.
I'm trying to get more of that.
Okay, more soon. Nice to be back.
32 hours left...
New BitTorrent 4.0.1 clinet for Linux, Windows, and Mac. (Well, 4.0.1 is new for Mac I'm not totally sure if it's new for the other platforms.)
FAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law.
Today, on Apple's 29th birthday, the latest developmental build of Mac OS X 10.4 - aka Tiger - was declared gold master. That means all development is done and it now goes to the factory to get pressed for distribution. This process usually takes a few weeks, so the April 15th rumors look to be right.
Here's a list of email to SMS gateways that I will probably need some day:
AT&T:Stolen wholesale from the wireless weblog.
AreaCode+Mobile@mobile.att.net
Verizon:
AreaCode+Mobile@vtext.com
Nextel:
AreaCode+Mobile@page.nextel.com
T-Mobile:
AreaCode+Mobile@tmomail.com
Sprint:
AreaCode+Mobile@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Cingular:
1+AreaCode+Mobile@mobile.mycingular.com
AFP548 is a site I just found geared toward Mac OS X Server administrators. The forums are amazingly good.
More annoying Mac boosterism, this time from Paul Graham. Of course I don't find it annoying, and what's more, he's right :-)
All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get....
...If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing.
In the matter of "platforms" this tendency is even more pronounced, because novel software originates with great hackers, and they tend to write it first for whatever computer they personally use. And software sells hardware. Many if not most of the initial sales of the Apple II came from people who bought one to run VisiCalc. And why did Bricklin and Frankston write VisiCalc for the Apple II? Because they personally liked it. They could have chosen any machine to make into a star.
If you want to attract hackers to write software that will sell your hardware, you have to make it something that they themselves use. It's not enough to make it "open." It has to be open and good.
And open and good is what Macs are again, finally.
But this has been clear for a while in terms of Apple. Lately I've noticed that Yahoo! is also beginning to attract a different (although somewhat overlapping) crowd of alpha geek web developers through the same method: being open and good. I wonder if their fortunes will follow similarly?
Drunkenblog interview with Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch, uber 1337 OS X programmer. Pretty technical but really interesting.
I just love the way really good programmers express themselves. It seems like it is almost always the case that the best of the best are also the most humble.
John Carmack, father of Quake, and the most well known graphics programmer in the world, has a few thoughts on writing games in java for cellphones. I always find it interesting to read what he has to say. Short version: games on cellphones pretty much suck (but it's a little more interesting than that.)