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Exactly! It's a very cynical view of the media and unfortunately one I encounter too often among tech vendors. This statement makes everything else seem like sour grapes, regardles…

Just one nit: tell us more about who you are. When dealing with something like health insurance data (or really any service, to be honest) I like to know there's a human or corpora…

This is a somewhat ungrateful perspective, just after the Eolas patent case was thrown out. Yes, the W3C process takes about half the lifespan of many HN readers. Yup, it's not ide…

Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.

Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.

This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes…

They're not out yet. I'm waiting eagerly to see what degree of openness they offer. My bet is that in this first release they'll offer a compromise between openness and Google's de…

It is a long bet, but I think the inherent advantages (in both improving search quality and in declawing Facebook) for Google of making the social features commodity will lead this…

#5 is a catchy way of saying there's an excellent complement of open source libraries and support. Though I sure get that for many HN readers the fact that many people are doing so…

Line-based processing is still important! This work reminds me of an article I wrote 11 years ago covering Sean McGrath's work on PYX—a line-based format for XML—see http://www.xml…

Yes, planning to.