http://oped.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:25:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great quote: A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,” he said. http://oped.blogsome.com/2005/10/17/6/ Jon Udell: I learn poorly from API documentation, and rely almost exclusively on examples. Sam Ruby: Me too. Me: Me too. http://oped.blogsome.com/2005/10/05/no-demo-no-clue/ eBay just bought Skype. For $4.1 billion! Oh man. This is just so wrong. I thought the era of brainlessly overpriced companies has passed, but apparently that isn’t so. How exactly are they going to justify this price? They can’t, it’s simply not possible. The technology is not that special. There are lots ... http://oped.blogsome.com/2005/09/12/ebay-did-indeed-just-buy-skype/ I keep reading about New Orleans, and most of the news is disturbing and embarrassing. The shock over a complete lack of government response to me easily matches the shock over the actual event. Daily Kos was one of the first American blogs to write about a story that first broke ... http://oped.blogsome.com/2005/09/05/new-orleans-dies-government-makes-fool-of-itself/ Wuahaha. John Battelle’s Searchblog was one of the first sources to quote an amazing leaked court document that is currently getting a lot of attention — it describes a conversation between Steve Ballmer and now former employee Mark Lucovsky, who left Microsoft in late 2004. In this conversation, Lucovsky tells ... http://oped.blogsome.com/2005/09/03/steve-ballmer-loses-mind-throws-chair-at-wall/