DanTheDuck

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by DanTheDuck 3y ago
Location: Orlando, FL, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, networking Résumé/CV: https://www.3geeks.org/~dan/Resume.pdf Email: resume@3geeks.org I am an old school Sysadmin t
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
That depends entirely on how you think about "turtles all the way down!" Primitives have to be built from something, our CPUs don't speak HTML natively. We'll use jQuery as an example. People use jQuery bits to build widget sets for their
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
Swing takes a different approach. It is a pluggable widget toolkit rather than a set of lower level constructs used to build primitives.
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
The power of the web isn't any one technology, but a combination of two very powerful things: the ability to present arbitrary content with an arbitrary look and feel, and the ability to trivially point a user at someone else's content. We
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
> The inherent tension between the speed and efficiency of closed platforms and the decentralized power of open standards based platforms seems insurmountable. Isn't this where open source platforms like Linux come in? Linux has been f
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
Peer to Peer social networking suffers from a massive chicken and egg problem. Something like this isn't going to be built on the backs of Facebook users seeking privacy or freedom from UI updates. The key to solving this will be to find t
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
We're not getting away from SaaS without an underlying infrastructure for something along the lines of Software as a Peer to Peer Network. PaaS and IaaS have the potential to exhibit some of the same problems as SaaS. Look at the AWS/Wikil
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
From my point of view, full-access pipes are the problem. Asymmetric connections, bandwidth caps, incoming port filtering, etc are all de rigueur for large fixed line ISPs these days. This is especially true in North America. The mobile
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
The original article is much more about end-user SaaS type cloud experiences than the IaaS or PaaS services you're mentioning. The nature of SaaS is that it is directly facing the end-user. IaaS or PaaS services are more B2B style and so
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
The pendulum may be swinging, but I'm not sure I see it. Mobile computing isn't really different from the PC/web of the 90s. The shift is in the access pattern, not the access paradigm. Napster/Kazaa/BitTorrent is an example of the pendu
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
My question is how does this relate to market maturity? Look at the Linux server market. That market is very much at the peak of the curve or perhaps into the "Late Majority" phase. Does a company targeting that market necessarily have t
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by DanTheDuck 15y ago
It seems like the conflict between #1 and #2 is the big challenge (and opportunity) here. #2 posits that people (and thus their companies) get great benefit from being close to each other and able to exchange ideas rapidly as the mood/need/