“The standards process doesn’t only help with interoperability, it also helps improve the design of every feature”
life is grand.: An almost perfect personal worldview.
I’m editing this a bit, but this is a beautiful worldview from al3x:
In terms of social ideology, I identify as a secular humanist. On matters of faith, I’m an agnostic. Politically, I’m a [registered—I’m not registered] independent; my politics are closest to that of The Economist…
“The function of a newsroom in the future is to coordinate the voices of the world to produce a coherent news product”
“applicants should focus on how existing systems can be used to deliver information in new ways. Instead of coming to Knight with a pitch for the next Facebook, talk about how your proposal could use it better. “We’re saying there are already robust tools on the internet. Let’s use those,” Maness said”
“One interesting detail that emerged in the case was that the U.S. Patent Office didn’t have access to the Internet in 1994 and was apparently forbidden from going on the Internet in 1997, which would make research into prior art in cyberspace somewhat of a challenge.”
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- It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it’s worth repeating again: people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.
“Zynga generates over 15 TB of new data every single day”
“Ultimately, this is a false construct. What these discussions need is the introduction of a fourth variable: The programmers using agile methodology will tell you to consider scope. The amount of work we choose to undertake is flexible, and controlling scope allows us to maintain an acceptable standard in relation to time, cost, and quality. The unspoken truth is that creators and customers have only a vague sense of what is important early in a project, and by choosing scope as the variable to control, we don’t build a bunch of stuff people don’t want or won’t use.”
“technically the web was invented in France, not Switzerland”
