Pseudorandom thoughts of overworked developer

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I’ve been too busy lately and many things suffered as a consequence, writing being one of them. This is not a complaint, since I mostly had fun doing what I did, but it is becoming obvious that too much fun can kill you too. Anyhow, this is not a post discussing woes many would love to have. It’s a short list of ideas and thoughts that occurred to me recently, which I don’t have time to really think through or didn’t want to commit to Twitter’s transient stream:

  • I got a spam comment offering to kill a competitor’s website for 70$ per day of downtime. It looked genuine enough to be a truly depressing comment on web’s fragility.
  • “Does he have a Facebook account?” seems to be the most succinct way of learning person’s outlook on privacy issues.
  • Democracy is a terrible way of solving important problems fast. Or solving them at all. However it does provide us with our share of blame.
  • I can’t wait to see what Nokia RX-51/N900 will really bring. Here is one reason why. Building on a closed platform is investing in a lottery ticket.
  • Alex Russel’s Some Orthodox Heresies sums my view of HTML5 better than I ever could. Hard to disagree with his other points too.
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