It used to be that the daydream of every programmer was to write the next great Unix shell or the next great text editor. Nowadays it seems to be writing the next great web framework.
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It used to be that the daydream of every programmer was to write the next great Unix shell or the next great text editor. Nowadays it seems to be writing the next great web framework.
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Johnathan Schwartz is my favourite CEO. If computer industry CEOs were available as trading cards, I’d have Schwartz, Steve Jobs and maybe Mark Shuttleworth and stop my collection there. Read more »
I’ve written before on the need to introduce property rights over celestial objects in order to encourage ICI — intrasolar colonisation and industrialisation. Now Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame writes on lunar property law. For contrast see one of the original proposals in this vein, Mars: Who Should Own It.
Club Troppo’s own Missing Link included this item on Tuesday:
“Henry Thornton” examines the hurdles to shifting to another planet and concludes we’d best start making serious efforts to save the ecosystem on this one (and ignore the idiot denialists).
Strictly speaking, this is not a correct deduction, for two reasons.
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“Loose Coupling”. Don’t snigger, because loose coupling is one of the most important ideas in software development: that program A should be able to use program B without caring about how B does its job. Read more »
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