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Location: Orlando, FL, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, networking Résumé/CV: https://www.3geeks.org/~dan/Resume.pdf Email: resume@3geeks.org I…

That depends entirely on how you think about "turtles all the way down!" Primitives have to be built from something, our CPUs don't speak HTML natively. We'll use jQuery as an exam…

Swing takes a different approach. It is a pluggable widget toolkit rather than a set of lower level constructs used to build primitives.

The power of the web isn't any one technology, but a combination of two very powerful things: the ability to present arbitrary content with an arbitrary look and feel, and the abil…

> The inherent tension between the speed and efficiency of closed platforms and the decentralized power of open standards based platforms seems insurmountable. Isn't this where ope…

Peer to Peer social networking suffers from a massive chicken and egg problem. Something like this isn't going to be built on the backs of Facebook users seeking privacy or freedom…

We're not getting away from SaaS without an underlying infrastructure for something along the lines of Software as a Peer to Peer Network. PaaS and IaaS have the potential to exhib…

From my point of view, full-access pipes are the problem. Asymmetric connections, bandwidth caps, incoming port filtering, etc are all de rigueur for large fixed line ISPs these da…

The original article is much more about end-user SaaS type cloud experiences than the IaaS or PaaS services you're mentioning. The nature of SaaS is that it is directly facing the …

The pendulum may be swinging, but I'm not sure I see it. Mobile computing isn't really different from the PC/web of the 90s. The shift is in the access pattern, not the access para…

My question is how does this relate to market maturity? Look at the Linux server market. That market is very much at the peak of the curve or perhaps into the "Late Majority" phase…

It seems like the conflict between #1 and #2 is the big challenge (and opportunity) here. #2 posits that people (and thus their companies) get great benefit from being close to eac…