5 Years
May 09, 2012
permalink / printable / commentsLast night my team finished a project that took 5 years to complete (it may have been longer, but my brain is having a difficult time thinking in chunks of time bigger than 5 years, so let’s assume it took 5 years). In the end there wasn’t a lot pomp and there wasn’t a lot of circumstance. The project moved step by step by step and dependencies were knocked down until the project was complete.
The odd thing about this is in many ways it feels like it just happened — we just laid one last brick and realized all the bricks in place, and there is a complete structure here. Now I’m already onto thinking about other things — probably the next thing that will take 5 years to complete, but when it is done will feel like it happened overnight.
Nick Farina - An iOS Developer Takes on Android
May 04, 2012
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This is a great description of the differences between iOS and Android.
Facebook's open source data center project gains industry support | Data Center - InfoWorld
May 03, 2012
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Facebook’s OpenCompute platform is a big deal. A mac mini has higher performance than most 1U servers. We are going to see an explosion of high density, low cost servers in the next few years.
Groupon Shuffles Board; Schultz, Efrusy Giving Up Seats - Forbes
May 02, 2012
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Sticking with my link topic of fads this week. Is Group On a $10Billion fad?
The Decline and Fall of 'Draw Something' - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
May 01, 2012
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The consumer space has gotten very “faddy.” Just because something is hot today, doesn’t mean it will be hot a year from now. Similar story as turntable.fm.