Fubaredness Is Contagious

I am sure you’ve heard of Bertrand Russell’s paradox and one of its more widely known versions – Barber paradox. But let me rephrase the Wikipedia article:
Suppose there is a town with just one public IaaS cloud provider, and that every business in the town runs their own IT: some by hosting it on-premises, some [...]

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This is a semi-serious, semi-joking post.
Earlier this month, Seth Godin, one of the leading thinkers of our digital age, wrote a post titled Do ads work?
If the local bank were offering a sale on dollar bills, ninety cents each, how many would you buy?
Most rational people would say, “I’ll take them all please.” Especially if [...]

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Google released their App Engine yesterday. Very cool python goodness, supposedly with access to their BigTable and GFS and supposedly free for use up to a certain limit.
In the meantime, Google engineers (or was it designers?) came up with a new type of aircraft. You probably have heard about flying wings, but it looks [...]

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