Month: September 2011
ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The second (maybe even third) great migration from Delicious is in effect only this time since exporting is broken, people are even more upset.
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
Computerworld – Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
Can’t say I’m that shocked Google has been doing really awesome work with Chrome.
APOD – Flying over Planet Earth
Wow!
gdgt – Oh, one more thing about the Amazon tablet: the second, better version is coming very soon
I think I’ll hold off on Gen1 of the Kindle Tablet, if Gen2 is going to be coming out that soon.
NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers
OnStar however still hasn’t changed it’s mind about selling data it collects from current customers at some point.
Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality
Essentially length of code tied with code metrics becomes a reasonable predictor of bugs.
Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
Glad I don’t own a vehicle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a little sleazy to collect and sell information from former customers.
binary/organic – Fight Google or Use their Services: Pick One, not Both
Google is so awesome the people complaining about Google are using Google to do their complaining.
Electronista – Microsoft CEO sees open dissent after general meeting
Microsoft is looking worse and worse every day.