Month: June 2014
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Wireless Ethernet is to cellular Internet like water is to oil
This is what happens if you let a mobile commercial access provider (aka, a cell phone companies) deploy WiFi in their service area: They charge you for WiFi. Think about that. When was the last time you actually paid for WiFi? Free WiFi is everywhere – McDonald’s has free WiFi. My dentist has free WiFi. …
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Fixing a broken Internet
The Internet is broken. We know it is broken. We make money off the fact that is broken, which dis-incentivizes us to fix it. We should fix the Internet despite this.
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Why you don’t need stateful middle-boxes or transport layer state in your network when you use IPv6 with Elastic Compute and Connectivity Infrastructure
Neither network state – like what TCP gives you – nor stateful middle-boxes – like advanced firewalls or load balancers – are necessary when you have IPv6 networks. This is a significant departure from the IPv4 world where both are a necessary, even fundamental, component of designing a safe, scalable, fast, and resilient network.
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Doing ‘X’ in {some small number} Lines of Code
There have been enough of these in my information river lately that they have risen above the threshold of ‘annoying but ignorable’, so let me state for the record: If you are importing libraries and you aren’t counting those libraries in your ‘Lines of Code’ claims, you are a liar. And, as a corollary, claims…
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The basics of a “slow demand” video service
Several years ago – call it 2004-ish – I spent a fleeting amount of time thinking about how to design a really good set top box that would facilitate a “slow demand” video service. This was around the time that I had permitted four things to enter my life – Netflix’s DVD by mail service,…
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Books read – 2014
Power Shift – Alvin Toffler The Coming Anarchy – Robert Kaplan REAMDE – Neil Stephenson REMOTE – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Predictive Analytics – Eric Seigel Monsoon – Robert Kaplan Intention Economy – Doc Searles The Laws of Simplicity – Jon Maeda The Great Degeneration – Niall Ferguson
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Monsters and those who fight them
“He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Is Edward Snowden a traitor?
Probably not, and here’s why I say that. No matter the value you place on the two things that he undeniably has done – violate the various rules for the handling of classified information and in so doing expose the vast array of things being done by the United States in the domain of surveillance…