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Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Just now I did a routine Google search whose top result ended up being a thread on Google Groups. To my shock, when I tried to click on thi...
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work . I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the…
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Oh, boy has it been quiet here. I have used wayback machine to pull a bunch of older content into the repo so that it can be shared with you beautiful people. There was no real reason to do that except I get annoyed by broken links. Really annoyed. It seems every time I reach back into my bookmarks for something the…
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May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very…
There has been quite a bit of furor and excitement on the Internet this week regarding some very public criticisms (and defenses) of MongoDB and its creators, 10gen . Unfortunately, a ghost from my recent past also resurfaced as a result. Let me begin by apologizing to 10gen and its engineers for what I said at JSConf…
Recapping the criticisms made about MongoDB.
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The day before I submitted this column, news hit the net that the other shoe had finally dropped. After months of waiting and wondering what was to become of Be, we learned that Palm, Inc. will be purchasing Be's technology, intellectual property, and assets. While we don't yet know exactly what Palm plans to do with…