or maybe death on the border.

This is not the problem that I thought would be in play ten years after I left.

I have a few theories about why VC’s favor the young. First, VC’s tend to travel in herds. For the last decade, the herd has been all about the Internet. And Internet startups require a lot less sophistication and coordination than, say, a telecom gear startup, an enterprise software startup, or a biotech startup. Everything from the product ( Read more... )

Updated itself tonight. Fedora 13 boot time improved by 3x.

as reported by CNN

In the vein of prock's picture-post and adb_jaeger's ongoing observation that the Feds are doing everything that they can to drive the dollar through the floor. The battle lines are in the sand. To my industrial detriment, the next war isn't going to be fought with tanks [maybe the war after that will, but ...].

/usr/bin/test

Professor Shalizi wrote something interesting the other day about the micro-roots of economic theory.

just so I can buy all the books that I want to read.

... there was a verkakte documentary on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Flow last night. Dark anything is a hack. You would be better off making the case to me that the Dirac Sea has a bottom.

Cycling geekery

elective surgery ever going to be a material part of 'universal healthcare'?