“ Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say “hey, that _almost_ works for me”, and they’ll get involved in the project.
Linus Torvalds. “Open source” is increasingly being seen by companies as a way to come up with an idea and outsource your labour to people who will work for free.
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technology ∩ social change
chrome extensions are web pages! (chrome extensions are web pages).
usually, after getting all excited about new software, I end up breaking my system. fortunately, my idiocy is balanced with paranoia, and, after destroying the root partiton last night, I managed a full recovery with SystemRescueCd and a recent image.
It’s difficult to find a flattering photo of this phone.
Its ease of use is dependent on the operating system. Android has a livecd and a koolu mod which halves the boot time to 51s. Debian, on the other hand, comes with about 24 thousand free packages.
So what am I looking for in a phone?
- speed
- weight
- reliability
- battery life
It’s safe to say, therefore, that the neo freerunner will not be a phone. At least, not a good phone. In the future I see, phones will simply have wifi, GPS and Linux, with free data transfer (including VoIP) through an ad-hoc mesh network.
This is the first, but it’s really only for developers at the moment.
the advent of a <video> tag in the new HTML 5 standard has caused a standoff between stakeholders in internet video as to which codec is adopted. a good discussion of this is here. a comparison between the two competing standards is here.
of that comparison, the ogg theora video loaded in firefox 3.5 natively. the other one didn’t. that pretty much decided it for me. looks like brower market share will decide this one.
google wave (is that a firefly reference?) preview. if you haven’t seen it, because you must.
