Posts on Christopher Hicks

Beautiful.

Now your Windows gaming experience sucks less, and – are you ready for it – it is because of Linux gamers.

Somebody should tell the cops that they were hired to protect our freedoms like Freedom of Speech and that trying to suppress those freedoms creates more distrust.

Bozos attacking union leaders who have real integrity and actually helped real people who had real problems…. this will not make America great.

Amazon today announced a new product called simply Product that will provide a consistent API for them to create new products at the whim of product managers without requiring any technical assistance or consistency with the laws of physics.

All of that and Perl and Larry Wall.

AWS continues to lead the industry in demonstrating that selling snake oil with conferences and tech lofts is the way to make big bucks.

We’ve needed to learn to present data better for a long time.

Where are the Windows Supercomputers?

Bravo LEGO Group.

It speaks for itself.

The problem here is that Limbaugh enjoys having his pants on fire.

Hey +Akamai Technologies: no comment leaves everyone to jump to their own conclusions.

We had a great time at Bricks by the Bay 2016.

Why pivot when you are so awesome?

Progress comes in little steps.

Maybe AOL would be doing something if their CEO wasn’t wasting his time at swanky state dinners.

A nice interview with Christian McCarrick, my VP of Engineering at Telmate.

So you’re telling me I have to go to Jupiter to buy these LEGO’s?

Microsoft keeps acting more reasonable.

Open source architecture is apparently all about building real buildings, not designing your latest twitter clone.

OK Housing advocates: pick your poison.

Apple knows better than you whether you need those pesky music files.

Dismantle the copyright tyranny soon please.

Blizzard is not known for their foresight in working with the open source community.

Chicks eats chicks, who knew?

Why aren’t any of the candidates talking about important issues like killing DST?

Buy this pool table!

I’m not a big fan of Bill’s pre-marriage legacy, but at least we can agree that Dick Feynman was mega-awesome.

The only reason I bought these games is that they were available for #Linux.

Find your plaques, slackers!

“Someone asked on Twitter whether this meant President Obama is also responsible for daughter Bristol’s two unwed pregnancies.

The title of this makes it sound like a nationalistic rant, but it actually turns out that colocating your engineers and production facilities results in better products.

I’m still not getting a twitter account!

Glory in the science while you download the data from github.

PHP, Java, and .NET are more prone to #security problems than JavaScript or the other major scripting languages.

“Why Smart People Act So Stupid” is the story of my life. :) Links “8 Ways Smart People Act Stupid” by Travis Bradberry on LinkedIn Shared with: Public

Links An open letter from an Israeli to her Muslim Uber driver Shared with: Public

Shows some interesting metrics for what drivers are earning and spending their time as Uber’s platform evolves.

Do you have any suggestions for user-friendly DNS management?

distributed.net has been down for a week. :-( I hope they can put the pieces back together soon.

The Muppets plus Lindsey Stirling is more awesome than I can possibly find words worthy to describe.

We had a fun weekend with Natalie, Hoan + crew.

Images Shared with: Public Comments Betty Hicks - 2015-05-22T14:39:18Z Thanks for sharing.

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Lovely arrangements at the Tulip Show at Mountain View this last weekend.

Check out Frank Gehry’s model for the new Facebook building. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-menlo-park/unveiling-our-campus-expansion/408653002515369 Why isn’t your lawn on the roof?

I think there’s been entirely too much made of this, but I’m pleased the geeks dug into this and pointed out the obvious problems.

Ladies, you too can kick ass in tech.

These guys moved to real hardware, it cost them half as much as AWS, and it was better in almost every way.