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One hack too many

This is a post that took more than a year to write, working off and on for many nights and weekends. Read →

Dethe Elza • Nov 13, 2009 • 2 min read

Go Language and Functional Programming

There is a cool new language on the block, coming from The Google courtesy of (among others) Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. The language is called Go (and the debugger is called Ogle, so put ‘em together for a secret message) and it attempts to be both a low-level, type-safe, compiled language, like C, while being garbage-collected, concise, with high-level structures and idioms like Python and Javascript. There are a lot of things to like in it, and I am exploring what it can and cannot do. Read →

Dethe Elza • Oct 12, 2009 • 27 min read

Schools of the Future

The impact of technology on everything else

Recently when I was at BarCamp I was repeatedly reminded of an article about Craigslist, explaining why bigger, more capitalized companies had failed over and over to compete successfully with Craigslist. It came down to their credo: “unbrand, uncompete, and demonetize.” Essentially, they took a potentially $22 Billion market and cut it down to a $1 Billion market, or less. The AOLs and Ebays of the world cannot survive while scrapping over fractional parts of a $1B market, they’re just too big. But Craigslist, with its 30 employees, can thrive just fine with $100M annual revenues. It comes down to the basic math of mammals vs. dinosaurs. Read →

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