Archive for Mar 2014

4 entries

Automatically Run the KRL Parser When You Commit Code

Tue Mar 18 15:51:00 2014

Running the command line KRL parser is a pain. Better to have a Git hook do it for you.
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The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer

Tue Mar 18 14:22:00 2014

Read this short post on Intel Processors to Become OS Locked, then listen to Cory Doctorow's The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer. Cory's actual talk is about 45 minutes followed by another 45 minutes of question and answer. As Cory points out, computers exercise a particular intersection of property and human rights that makes for some interesting societal questions. Sometimes, the questions are ones for which we've already got a meatspace precedent that we choose to ignore when computers are involved. For example, can your employer spy on what you put in email because they own the
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Substitutability is an Indispensable Property for the Internet of Things

Tue Mar 11 12:59:00 2014

Substitutability is a key feature of decentralized systems that give people real choice and build trust. The coming Internet of Things will be limited in what it can provide without it.
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Coinbase Shenanigans

Thu Mar 6 19:09:00 2014

Coinbase just canceled my bitcoin transaction for being high-risk with no other explanation. Not very nice of them!
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