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No doubt. But would you agree that the more you use someone else's language, the more your thinking adapts to their way of thinking, as evidenced in how they designed the language?…

And linguistic style reflects how a person thinks (so the theory goes). So when you mimic someone's linguistic style, you may find yourself succumbing to their way of thinking. The…

A comparable alternative is never going to free for everyone. Someone has to pay the Amazon fees for S3 use. Isn't it true that the few Dropbox users who do pay for it support all …

from the article: "presumptively illegal" Who wrote this? Do they mean "presumptively infringement"? My understanding is that copyright is enforced by the copyright holder, not the…

Ah, see. Now we're getting somwhere. But what about load balancing and CDN's? DNS was not designed for those purposes. What if users are not completely ignorant of the geographical…

Registers. Love 'em. Where's the BSD version?

There is a solution for SSL. Of course it's not SSL, it's more secure and it's faster. You can set several "domain names" (hostnames) for a server. There is a working prototype. Se…

SOPA does not have to pass to achieve the effect I'm suggesting. It will simply open people's eyes to the centralisation that is ongoing. The "single point of failure" will become …

How much of the $87M went toward legal fees? Lots of negotiation here. The technology is trivial by comparison. Thinking out loud... Has any publisher managed to control their cont…

gvb is correct. Local cache is the way to go. Some have known this for a long time. SOPA could be a blessing in disguise if the meme spreads. Cache poisoning becomes irrelevent. If…

General purpose PC's will only disappear if the market for them disappears. Ultimately it is 1. the nerds who educate (or fail to educate) the consumer market about what is possibl…

Importance is a subjective concept. One opinion is that a very important Internet application will inevitably be 1-1. Who did the FCC just hire as their new CTO? What is happening …

Imagine if you dialled a full telephone number, including applicable country code and local regional code, and depending on where you were dialling from, you reached a different te…

With the widespread use of anycast, does "first class addressing for machines" even matter any more? In situations where anycast is used, how do you even know what machine a given …

VJ talks about something called "Evolutionary Pressures" at the end of his Google Talk a few years ago. Watch the video if you haven't already. SOPA if it passes may create such pr…

Interesting blog. "radical low-complexity" Love that. "Retro"? Nah. More like: - responsive, - easier to understand, - capable and worthy of being maintained and repaired - hence "…

Apologies. s/Android/Dalvik Google had a choice of which virtual machine to use on Android. They went with a modified Dalvik. Could they have chosen Inferno? If they looked at it a…

Please keep in mind that it's not solely IP law that is the problem. It is how the law is being used. And who is (and is not) using it. By and large, those who hold the lion's shar…

All these devices should boot to a simple, standard, (extendable) FORTH bootloader. By all means, bundle some pre-packaged code to do all manner of silly things, but also allow use…

Why couldn't they have used the Inferno OS for their VM? Code reuse at Google is huge. So what were their reasons for not choosing it? Apologies if this has been asked and answered…