We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
Before that I worked for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions. It turns out to be amazing demo-ware that solves a problem that only one company in the world cares about.
> >
Before that I worked for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that claims to measure people's emotions from their facial expressions. It turns out to be amazing demo-ware that solves a problem that only one adtech company in the world cares about.
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Go, Python, and Ruby, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in Java and C.
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I work for Acnodal, a startup company building networking add-ons for Kubernetes.
Before that I worked for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions. It turns out to be amazing demo-ware that solves a problem that only one company in the world cares about.
Before that I worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted...
> >
Before that I worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted, which wasn't very long...
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. Great idea, great people, great product, plenty of funds. It's a damn shame it didn't work out.
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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Resume
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Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
> >
Here's my resume. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Informal Resume
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
> >
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Go, Python, and Ruby, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in Java and C.
Changed:
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I work for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions.
> >
I work for Acnodal, a startup company building networking add-ons for Kubernetes.
Before that I worked for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions. It turns out to be amazing demo-ware that solves a problem that only one company in the world cares about.
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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Hi. I'm a husband, father, programmer, systems engineer, technical architect, and motorcycle rider who lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Hi! I'm a father, husband, programmer, systems engineer, technical architect, and motorcycle rider who lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
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I've also been mentoring a kid through https://codepath.org . It's fun chatting with someone who's just starting out in the industry, and hopefully I'll be able to help her avoid a few of the many career mistakes that I've made.
Resume
Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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Hi. I'm a husband, father, programmer, systems engineer, technical architect, and motorcycle rider who lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
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I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
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Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with
application development technologies. The combination
of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is
incredibly powerful! If you haven't played around with
ruby or python
then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
Resume
Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
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Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
> >
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
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Before SaltFire I worked for
Kenan Systems
as a director in the software development group, at various times
in charge of architecture,
development, and performance groups (even the IT group for a while). We were a wild little
independent software
company until the founder sold out to
Lucent
in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892.
Please see the nurse for your implant." Working for the phone company (or at least one of the fragments of it) was interesting but it reinforced my belief that small companies are where it's at. Given that there's really no better job security at a place like Lucent than at a startup there's not a lot to recommend working there.
Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for GTECH. The technology
is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left
there were too many DilbertStories, so I moved back home
to Boston.
> >
Before SaltFire I worked for Kenan Systems as a director in the software development group, at various times in charge of architecture, development, and performance groups (even the IT group for a while). We were a wild little independent software company until the founder sold out to Lucent in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892. Please see the nurse for your implant." Working for the phone company (or at least one of the fragments of it) was interesting but it reinforced my belief that small companies are where it's at. Given that there's really no better job security at a place like Lucent than at a startup there's not a lot to recommend working there.
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Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for a lottery systems vendor called GTECH . The technology is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left there were too many DilbertStories, so I moved back home to Boston.
Misc
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It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity surfing." TobyVanitySurf
My Christmas list: TobyXmasList2007.
I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over.
OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords. I'm currently at the
point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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ruby or python
then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
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Work
> >
Resume
Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Added:
> >
Informal Resume
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I work for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions.
Before that I worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted...
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I work for Affectiva, a Media Lab spin-off with a technology that can measure people's emotions from their facial expressions.
Changed:
< <
I most recently worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted...
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. Great idea, great people, great product, plenty of funds. It's a damn shame it didn't work out.
> >
Before that I worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted...
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. Great idea, great people, great product, plenty of funds. It's a damn shame it didn't work out.
Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting.
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
Changed:
< <
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
> >
Hi. I'm a husband, father, programmer, systems engineer, technical architect, and motorcycle rider who lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
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then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
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I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over.
OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords. I'm currently at the
point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
Work
> >
Work
Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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there were too many DilbertStories, so I moved back home
to Boston.
Added:
> >
Misc
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity surfing." TobyVanitySurf
My Christmas list: TobyXmasList2007.
I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over.
OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords. I'm currently at the
point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
> >
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
If your web application fails in browsers with scripting disabled, Jakob Nielsen’s dog will come to your house and shit on your carpet. - Mark Pilgrim (more CuteQuotes)
> >
We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia. - Ted Nyman (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration. - Ray Ozzie (more CuteQuotes)
> >
If your web application fails in browsers with scripting disabled, Jakob Nielsen’s dog will come to your house and shit on your carpet. - Mark Pilgrim (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
That experience taught me a lot about what really matters in programming. It is not about solving puzzles and being the brightest kid in the class. It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. - Jonathan Edwards (more CuteQuotes)
> >
Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration. - Ray Ozzie (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I most recently worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site.
> >
I most recently worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted...
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Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
> >
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. Great idea, great people, great product, plenty of funds. It's a damn shame it didn't work out.
Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting.
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
> >
That experience taught me a lot about what really matters in programming. It is not about solving puzzles and being the brightest kid in the class. It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. - Jonathan Edwards (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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application development technologies. The combination
of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is
incredibly powerful! If you haven't played around with
then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
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Work
Changed:
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Here's my (stale) resume, my resume in PDF format
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
> >
Here's my resume, and my resume in PDF format. Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
< <
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
> >
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I'm currently looking for work.
I most recently worked for http://sermo.com/ helping build and run their web site.
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
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in charge of architecture,
development, and performance groups (even the IT group for a while). We were a wild little
independent software
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company until the founder got greedy and sold out to
> >
company until the founder sold out to
Lucent
in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892.
Please see the nurse for your implant." Working for the phone company (or at least one of the fragments of it) was interesting but it reinforced my belief that small companies are where it's at. Given that there's really no better job security at a place like Lucent than at a startup there's not a lot to recommend working there.
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there were too many DilbertStories, so I moved back home
to Boston.
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If you have comments or suggestions, please email me at toby@caboteria.org. I love to get non-SPAM email.
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
< <
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
> >
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C.
I work for http://sermo.com/ helping build their web site.
Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting.
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
> >
I don't trust technology. Sure, it's great for sharing cat photos or defacing Wikipedia or porn, but every day there's some new innovation that delegates another human task to an unthinking machine. Unthinking - for now... - Stephen Colbert (more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
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point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
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When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
SETI project.
Despite my meager PIII/933, I seem to be doing pretty well. Haven't found any little green men yet, though.
Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
< <
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
> >
At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting.
Changed:
< <
Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
> >
Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
IM is one more toxic spill that's directing our attention to short-term minor issues at the cost of procrastinating on important tasks that require more than a few minutes of uninterrupted thinking. Any time-management consultant will tell you that the basics of meeting your goals are to prioritize them and spend the most time on the most important problems. To make real progress in creative thinking, problem solving, or other knowledge work, we need to keep out interruptions and set our own agenda. IM, in contrast, lets your agenda be controlled by anybody who has your screen name. - Jakob Nielsen (more CuteQuotes)
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Excuse me, but just what was so hard to understand about this bunch? We knew they were dishonest. We knew they were fanatical. We knew they were purposely ignorant and bragged about not reading newspapers. We knew they were vindictive. We knew they were lawless. We knew they were obsessively secretive. We knew they had no time or patience for those who raised difficult questions. We knew they were driven by fantasies of religious warfare, personal vengeance and ideological triumph. We knew they had no respect for civil liberties. And we knew they took no responsibility for the consequences of their incompetence. Just what is surprising about the manner in which they've conducted the war? - Eric Alterman(more CuteQuotes)
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure.
Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting.
Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
IM is one more toxic spill that's directing our attention to short-term minor issues at the cost of procrastinating on important tasks that require more than a few minutes of uninterrupted thinking. Any time-management consultant will tell you that the basics of meeting your goals are to prioritize them and spend the most time on the most important problems. To make real progress in creative thinking, problem solving, or other knowledge work, we need to keep out interruptions and set our own agenda. IM, in contrast, lets your agenda be controlled by anybody who has your screen name. - Jakob Nielsen (more CuteQuotes)
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Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car.
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
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At work I'm a consulting software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
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At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
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Kenan Systems
as a director in the software development group, at various times
in charge of architecture,
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development, and performance groups. We were a cool little
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development, and performance groups (even the IT group for a while). We were a wild little
independent software
company until the founder got greedy and sold out to
Lucent
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
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IM is one more toxic spill that's directing our attention to short-term minor issues at the cost of procrastinating on important tasks that require more than a few minutes of uninterrupted thinking. Any time-management consultant will tell you that the basics of meeting your goals are to prioritize them and spend the most time on the most important problems. To make real progress in creative thinking, problem solving, or other knowledge work, we need to keep out interruptions and set our own agenda. IM, in contrast, lets your agenda be controlled by anybody who has your screen name. - Jakob Nielsen (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car.
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car.
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It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car.
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm an consulting software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
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At work I'm a consulting software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
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Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
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Fun book I've just finished reading: High And Mighty by Keith Bradsher. A very scary book about why SUV's kill more people than cars (both the people inside and the people they crash into) and why the auto makers depend on them to stay in business. It's a very scary book that makes me want to run out and buy an armored Crown Victoria. If you drive an SUV please sell it and buy a car.
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
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At work I'm an independent software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems.
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At work I'm an consulting software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems. I work for a Riverton LLC, a boutique "work for hire" development company. We're small enough that the bell curve doesn't apply, and even in these tough times we're having fun and making our numbers. If you need software architecture and/or development expertise then we can probably help you.
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Until recently I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different: a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, e.g. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
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Before that I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It was a fun place to work; building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. My job was to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
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and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
Changed:
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At work I'm CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different: a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, e.g. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
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At work I'm an independent software developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale financial systems written in Java, although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems.
Until recently I was the CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different: a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, e.g. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever. - Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
(more CuteQuotes)
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The computer is both blessing and curse for it makes possible calculations once beyond the reach of human endurance while at the same time also making them virtually beyond the hope of human verification. - Henry Petrosky (more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
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La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever. - Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
(more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
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It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
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When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
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SETI project.
Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well. shhh... don't tell but my work machine is also crunching away (at night anyway)
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SETI project.
Despite my meager PIII/933, I seem to be doing pretty well. Haven't found any little green men yet, though.
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
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Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended.
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Fun book I've just finished reading: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this in my old room at my Mom's house and what with all of the LOTR movie hoopla I thought that I'd take another look. It was fun!
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being somthing elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
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I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being something elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended.
Having the capital cost of equipment drop to effectively zero allows you to think bigger. You start thinking about the whole thing. For instance, the gutsy maneuver of saying "let's index it all," which was the breakthrough of Altavista . Altavista in 1995 was an astonishing achievement, not because of the hardware -- yes, that was interesting and important from a technical perspective -- but because of the mindset. "Let's go index every document in the world." And once you have that sort of mindset, you can get really far. - Brewster Kahle
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I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being somthing elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth
(more CuteQuotes)
Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended.
Having the capital cost of equipment drop to effectively zero allows you to think bigger. You start thinking about the whole thing. For instance, the gutsy maneuver of saying "let's index it all," which was the breakthrough of Altavista . Altavista in 1995 was an astonishing achievement, not because of the hardware -- yes, that was interesting and important from a technical perspective -- but because of the mindset. "Let's go index every document in the world." And once you have that sort of mindset, you can get really far. - Brewster Kahle
(more CuteQuotes)
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Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended.
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
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Work
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Here's my resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm a development director at a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a small high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different. It's basically a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, i.e. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team (who are very bright but pretty junior).
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At work I'm CTO of a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different: a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, e.g. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team.
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard. - T.R. (more CuteQuotes)
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Having the capital cost of equipment drop to effectively zero allows you to think bigger. You start thinking about the whole thing. For instance, the gutsy maneuver of saying "let's index it all," which was the breakthrough of Altavista . Altavista in 1995 was an astonishing achievement, not because of the hardware -- yes, that was interesting and important from a technical perspective -- but because of the mindset. "Let's go index every document in the world." And once you have that sort of mindset, you can get really far. - Brewster Kahle
(more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard. - T.R. (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project ( http://www.gnu.org ). I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
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I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project. I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with
application development technologies. The combination
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SETI project.
Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well. shhh... don't tell but my work machine is also crunching away (at night anyway)
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Work
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Work
Here's my resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm a development director at a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems ( http://www.blackinksystems.com/ ). It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a small high-octane team, and the product that we're building is different and interesting. It's basically a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, i.e. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team (who are very bright but pretty junior).
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At work I'm a development director at a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems. It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a small high-octane team, and the product that we're building is new and different. It's basically a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, i.e. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team (who are very bright but pretty junior).
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
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financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very interesting experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
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financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very intense experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
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Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard. - T.R. (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project ( http://www.gnu.org ). I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help.
Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with
application development technologies. The combination
of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is
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SETI project.
Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well. shhh... don't tell but my work machine is also crunching away (at night anyway)
Added:
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Work
Here's my resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm the CTO of a small software company called SaltFire which builds
business infrastructure for communications carriers. If you're interested in what the future of OSS looks like, email me at toby@saltfire.com.
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At work I'm a development director at a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems ( http://www.blackinksystems.com/ ). It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a small high-octane team, and the product that we're building is different and interesting. It's basically a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, i.e. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team (who are very bright but pretty junior).
Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built
financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very interesting experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people.
company until the founder got greedy and sold out to
Lucent
in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892.
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Please see the nurse for your implant."
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Please see the nurse for your implant." Working for the phone company (or at least one of the fragments of it) was interesting but it reinforced my belief that small companies are where it's at. Given that there's really no better job security at a place like Lucent than at a startup there's not a lot to recommend working there.
Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for GTECH. The technology
is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
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When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
SETI project.
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Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well.
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Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well. shhh... don't tell but my work machine is also crunching away (at night anyway)
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
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Fun book I'm reading now: Patrick O'Brian, The Wine Dark Sea. It's been a while since I've read one of the Aubrey/Maturin adventures. They're fun!
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Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended.
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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At work I'm the CTO of a small software company called SaltFire which builds
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business infrastructure for communications carriers. I'm one of the founders
and I'm having a blast! We're hiring so please send your resume to toby@saltfire.com.
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business infrastructure for communications carriers. If you're interested in what the future of OSS looks like, email me at toby@saltfire.com.
application development technologies. The combination
of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is
incredibly powerful! If you haven't played around with
then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over.
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OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords.
So I was pleased to run across
bplay/brec and
lame which let you record and
mp3 encode pretty much anything that you can pipe into your soundcard.
I've been using them to record my LP's into MP3. I'm currently at the
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OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords. I'm currently at the
point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
I'd rather listen to Newton than to (Microsoft VP Craig Mundie). He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. - Linus Torvalds
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak
more managers ... means inefficiencies, higher costs and slower decision-making. - Carly Fiorina, HP CEO
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I'd rather listen to Newton than to (Microsoft VP Craig Mundie). He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. - Linus Torvalds
Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
Here's my resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
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wrote to a friend).
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wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
SETI project.
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Despite my meager PII/266, I seem to be
doing pretty well,
although I've fallen out of the top 5%. Seems i've got an excuse to get a new
PC! I wonder if Vicky would agree.
What people mean by the word 'technology' is the stuff that doesn't really work yet. - Danny Hillis
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Technology book I'm reading now: Howes et al, Understanding and Deploying LDAP
Directory Services.
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Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
Fun book I'm reading now: Patrick O'Brian, The Wine Dark Sea. It's been a while since I've read one of the Aubrey/Maturin adventures. They're fun!
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If you have comments or suggestions, please email me at toby@caboteria.org. I love to get non-SPAM email.
Technology book I'm reading now: Howes et al, Understanding and Deploying LDAP
Directory Services.
Fun book I'm reading now: Patrick O'Brian, The Wine Dark Sea. It's been a while since I've read one of the Aubrey/Maturin adventures. They're fun!
It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity
surfing." TobyVanitySurf
My Christmas list: TobyXmasList2000.
Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with
application development technologies. The combination
of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is
incredibly powerful! If you haven't played around with
perl or php
then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.
I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over.
OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords.
So I was pleased to run across
bplay/brec and
lame which let you record and
mp3 encode pretty much anything that you can pipe into your soundcard.
I've been using them to record my LP's into MP3. I'm currently at the
point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there
were cheap broadband wireless...
When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am
my spare cycles go to the
SETI project.
Despite my meager PII/266, I seem to be
<a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?email=toby.cabot%40pobox
.com&cmd=user_stats">doing pretty well,
although I've fallen out of the top 5%. Seems i've got an excuse to get a new
PC! I wonder if Vicky would agree.
Here's my resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend).
At work I'm the CTO of a small software company called SaltFire which builds
business infrastructure for communications carriers. I'm one of the founders
and I'm having a blast! We're hiring so please send your resume to toby@saltfire.com.
Before SaltFire I worked for
Kenan Systems
as a director in the software development group, at various times
in charge of architecture,
development, and performance groups. We were a cool little
independent software
company until the founder got greedy and sold out to
Lucent
in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892.
Please see the nurse for your implant."
Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for GTECH. The technology
is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left
it started to feel too much like a Dilbert cartoon, so I moved back home
to Boston.
If you have comments or suggestions, please email me at toby@caboteria.org. I love to get non-SPAM email.
my spare cycles go to the