Improve the median, not the mean
I like seeing Google Fiber prompt incumbent dinosaurs into boosting speeds. It’s great...
Liquidity, open source and security
Jeff has a thoughtful post about open source, security and incentives. A few points stood out to me...
Statements are statements, and expressions are expressions (in Go)
I got trolled by a facetious article on Go on April 1. But it did trigger a conversation about why Go doesn’t do certain things other languages do...
Theory of the firm: opt-in initiatives
I’ve become adamant about making internal initiatives opt-in for the following reason: it brings more information to bear...
Bugs are a failure of prediction
We think of bugs as flaws in code. This is incorrect, or at best, banal...
The legacy ad industry is wrong about ad blockers
I was recently directed to a couple of papers on browser ad-blocking software (here and here)...
Embedding a struct declaration in a text template in Go
Here’s a nice little technique I came across in developing gen. Say you have a text template, and that template is intended to output Go code...
Uncanny valley tech recruiting
As recruiter pitches show up in my inbox, it’s clear there’s a lot of “fake it til you make it” when it comes to tech terminology...
Yes, net neutrality is conservative. That’s the problem.
Fred Wilson makes the argument (here and here) that net neutrality is a conservative idea...
My security and privacy tools
A quick list of the things I use to improve my web experience:..