"Even so, I think some software systems are better than others: the producer of the crap in question swallowed some pennies, maybe, so their crap is shiny in places. Once in a while someone will even swallow a ruby, and their crap is both beautiful and valuable, viewed from a certain, ah, distance. But a turd is still a turd, no matter how many precious stones someone ate to make it." - Kevin Scott
Don't ask. But in case you do: I'm doing some light research for a hardware hacking project. FriendFeed just happened to be the most likely place to store this bookmark so that I don't forget about it. - Kevin Scott
I refuse not to ask! So... you're making a talking robot? - ⓞnor
Yeah. I've been playing around with a Lego Mindstorms kit that someone gave me and said to myself, "This would be a lot more fun if the things I'm building had a proper, lewd vocabulary." - Kevin Scott
"Google (you're on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with more ultimate frisbee experience than Python, whose main job will be to play foosball in the googleplex and walk around trying to get someone...anyone...to come see the demo code they've just written with their "20% time," doing some kind of, let me guess, cloud-based synchronization..." - ⓞnor
That bit of the post is fairly ridiculous. For one, if Joel's position were reversed--say he was a recently-graduated college student from a top school--he might not mind the 'untenable' salaries so much. :-) - Kevin Scott
As much as I enjoy making fun of stuff, I think Joel's post might be a better target than Microsoft Live Mesh. I'm not really sure what Mesh is, but it's probably a API for building cloud-hosted apps, so it seems a bit clueless to reduce it to "a way to synchronize files" and then to enduser cloud disk drive apps. What's next, claiming it's not better than a piece of paper? - j1m
I feel like the right answer isn't overage charges (yuck) but speed drops. You might get 6mbps for your first 20GB, then 1mbps for the next 10GB, then unlimited 300kbps until it resets at the next month. And of course there would be a meter you can check in real-time. - ⓞnor
