Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Sun: Split Up, Yo

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Since the whole pick-on-sun meme has really taken off , I figured I'd post some more on the current situation, because El Reg's tak...

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Programming Problems and Technical Interviews

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I've been involved in quite a few technical interviews over the years, and one thing that invariably (and rightfully) comes up is the pr...

TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking

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(Talking about Tim Bray's opinion on what Sun should do ). As someone who's used a lot of Sun's products, here's my respon...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Utility Computing in Finance: Regulatory Arbitrage

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Financial Services companies (particularly those doing derivatives work) are quite big consumers of CPU power for all the computations that ...

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Meeting With Solace Systems: Hardware MOM

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After my post on wanting an AMQP appliance , Hans Jespersen, Principal Systems Engineer with Solace Systems , got in touch with me and we me...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Some Interactions Are Only Indirectly Profitable

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I met with Ari Zilka from Terracotta Technologies yesterday in their offices in San Francisco for a follow-up meeting from a series of meet...

Monday, November 17, 2008

Perforce, FishEye, CC.Net, Labels, Oh My!

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My employer is a big Perforce shop. Although we've got some CVS repositories still lying around for legacy reasons, over the past few y...

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