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.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Back in New York City Next Week

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Yes, it's only been a month since I was last in the city so nice they named it twice, but I'm coming back again. I'm sure at...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Cartoon Characters Discuss Web-Scale Asynchronous Communications

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I couldn't resist joining in on the MongoDB/MySQL/DevNull Xtranormal meme. Many of these things I've blogged about before. But now ...

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Slow Clap for Item Moves in Basecamp

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I follow SvN . I'm not entirely sure why at this point, as I very rarely actually see anything of merit on it anymore, but I've not...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Java Initialization Barrier Pattern With AtomicBoolean

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I've found myself starting to use this little mini-pattern. You might find it useful. private final AtomicBoolean _hasBeenInitialized...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Code in an expert programming language

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Provided for your pleasure, anonymously, from an Expert Programming Language. Scala fans, you're about 2 steps removed from this. red...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I Want A New Programming Language

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Preface: This has nothing to do with the Oracle/Google Java lawsuit. Read this first. Dear Lazyweb and Programming Language Inventors: ...

The Oracle/Google Java/Android suit and a forthcoming blog post

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For those of you who aren't aware, I don't just spit out blog posts stream-of-consciousness. I mean, it might seem that way based o...

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