by tytso | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
The authors of “How Google Works” have given electronic versions of “How Google Works” to all Google employees. Since I had already purchased a copy via pre-order, to make life interesting, I’ve decided to give my Google Play coupon code... by tytso | Dec 14, 2010 | Android, Mobile
There’s been a lot of discussion regarding whether or not Nokia is Doomed or not. The people who say Nokia are doomed basically point out that Nokia doesn’t have any attractive products at the high end, and at the low end the margins are extremely thin.... by tytso | Dec 12, 2010 | Android, Filesystems, OSS
I received a trackback from Tim Bray’s Saving Data Safely post on the Android Developer’s blog to my Don’t fear the fsync! blog entry, so I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Starting with Gingerbread, newer Android phones (starting with the Nexus S)... by tytso | Dec 6, 2010 | Computers, Musings, OSS
Richard Tibbetts has called me out for conflating Web 2.0 startups with all startups in my recent blog posting, “Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap”. His complaint was that I was over generalizing from Web 2.0 startups to all startups. He’s... by tytso | Dec 2, 2010 | Politics, Security
Bruce Schneier has written an absolutely powerful essay in his blog, with the modest proposal that in response to the security worries at the Washington Monument, we should close it. If you haven’t read it yet, run, don’t walk, to his blog and read it.... by tytso | Nov 29, 2010 | Linux, Musings, OSS
Once again, there’s been another story about how Google is having trouble retaining talent. Despite all Eric Schmidt’s attempts to tell folks that Google’s regretted attrition rate has not changed in seven years, this story just doesn’t want... by tytso | Nov 1, 2010 | Filesystems
Thanks to Eric Whitney’s benchmarking results, I have my money shot for my upcoming 2011 LCA talk in Brisbane, which will be about how to improve scalability in the Linux kernel, using the case study of the work that I did to improve scalability via a series of... by tytso | Sep 12, 2010 | Politics, Religion
There has been much made of recent reports that roughly half of Americans have an unfavorable view of Islam. And as usual, there are those who will try to claim that Muslims really aren’t all that bad, and that Sharia is just set of nice, abstract principles... by tytso | Apr 8, 2010 | Security
This is so very, very, wrong — enough so that my first thought was, “this web site brought to you by China and the letters ‘M’, ‘S’, and ‘S'”. I’m curious how many people were stupid enough to use this to generate... by tytso | Mar 17, 2010 | Cooking, Food porn
I just came across this story (http://goo.gl/EbqP) today, and given my name, and given that I fancy myself a bit of a foodie, who could resist? (Not that I considered the deep-fried, dunked-in-sugar-syrup mess that passes for General Tso’s chicken in most fast...
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