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.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2009 Predictions

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Just a quick set of predictions for 2009. I'll revisit nearer the end of the year to see how I've done. Messaging Breaks Out Right n...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

SNOS: Quit Angering Andrew Tanenbaum

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Recently, someone forwarded me a blog post about a Social Network Operating System and what that might mean. I'll tell you what it mean...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Scoble Joins The Real-Time Web Conversation

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Well, maybe "joins" isn't the proper word, but this showed up on my FriendFeed account today: RSS Shows Its Age . As I've...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Forthcoming Ultra-Low-Latency Financial Apocalypse

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This is a follow-on from my previous post on utility computing in financial services , and came out of a discussion between Nolan and me wh...
Monday, December 15, 2008

REST Requires Asynchronous Notification

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I recently (well, compared to people like Steve Vinoski ) got converted to the RESTful architecture movement, but one of the first things th...

Purity vs. Pragmatism

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I was being interviewed for a new job last week (yes, I am actively on the market), and had a very interesting, frustrating run-in with one...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Meaningless, Programming, and Innate Affinity

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Clay Shirky guest post on BoingBoing called " Comfort with meaninglessness the key to good programmers ". The comments are fille...
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