Robi's Ringolog

Inspiring. Still.

"Here's to the crazy ones." — Steve Jobs

"we drift from block to block, from city to city, travers­ing con­ti­nents and time­zones. we live in cheap hos­tels, tiny flats and aban­doned struc­tures, scav­eng­ing the left-overs of a fall­en in­dus­tri­al so­ci­ety.

we speak many tongues, but one lan­guage. we smell ri­ots long be­fore they hap­pen, and sense wire­less hotspots. we dis­trust all that claim to lead us, and fear those who pre­tend to pro­tect us.

we in­hab­it new worlds in­side and out­side our heads our an­ces­tors didn’t dare to dream about. we are leav­ing their dreams of ma­te­ri­al wealth be­hind and spin new ones of lib­er­ty and life and hap­pi­ness.

we hate those who de­mand re­spect with­out earn­ing it. we phase in and out of dif­fer­ent re­al­i­ties and change our per­son­ae like un­der­wear. we are dig­i­tal con­quis­ta­dors, ex­plor­ing the strange new plane that pro­duced us.

we con­sid­er gen­der, skin col­or and spir­i­tu­al align­ment as ac­ces­soires we can wear, not as defin­ing as­pects of our­selves. we dis­re­gard na­tions, for we are chil­dren of the city and the riv­er.

we are born as the slaves of a dy­ing time, strug­gling to get free.

we are the cho­sen ones, for we have cho­sen our­selves.
we are the new."

— the new. a fanfare for those who are still alive.
— kewagi

/via c3o

Here Comes the Sun

:)

With tooling (Brightly) and massive developer and evangelism resources backing Dart, will we really have the kind of open-web-first, fair-play contest that people who thought Google was (as Paul Graham put it) "aligned with the grain of the web" have come to want and expect from Google?

It looks like we won't. GOOG is acting more like MSFT of old (also like AOL, wanting sticky eyeballs and time-on-site instead of being the best search engine). The game theories of public companies, the innovator's dilemma, the Facebook challenge, and the browser-vendor Prisoner's Dilemma, all predict this ironic development. It is not a surprise.

But companies are made of people, and I have hopes that Googlers on the right side of this conflict will speak up.

— /be

Some Software Design

A little bird's eye view of the overall architecture behind "Todos NG" app:

Up next: diving into.