Herein, the author documents his journeys in the fields of software development, jobs, music, and everyday absurdism.
I can be reached by the email alias "marc" at this domain (not tumblr.com), my public key is here.
I’ve neglected this for, well, awhile. I’ve been busy. You understand. In all likelihood, if you’re actually reading this, chances are you were redirected here sniffing around some shortened URL from http://m4rc.io/, and were nosy. It’s currently redirecting directly to http://slpsys.com/, which redirects here. I used to put, well, a handful of stuff here. Then I got busy. You understand. In the very near future, I’ll be doing something with this domain, as well. I promise.
Unlike the promise at http://audiovailable.com/. Yes, completely unlike that one. Ciao.
$0.01? If only. Thanks to an incredibly short deadline for a client pulling in the low tens of millions of requests per day, we’re rolling out a frontend using EC2 and S3. Sure, it’s expensed, but it’s impressive how quickly usage grows at a rate of $0.10/machine hour. More on that later.
From an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++:
My favorite quotation:
“Keep it simple; as simple as possible, but no simpler.” - A. Einstein
Great! Just what I needed. A dashboard of useless little trinkets showing off what I don’t have time to pay attention to, anyway. Honestly, Twidget is about the only Web 2.0-ish widget I ever use, and that’s rarely. From the brief article, this ties in OS X, iPhone, and Windows mobile. However, it seems like 2.0 companies had no problem whatsoever cranking out 2.5 different frontends to the same RESTful API (that’s another issue I’ll tackle later), so..what market are you ‘selling’ to? This is no different from that godawful Yammr launch; any company less than ___ people is already doing perfectly fine with private Twitter accounts for free, thank you, and any company more than ___ would likely rather spend 2 internal developer hours figuring out how to disseminate 140 characters to ___ people.
If you realize that all of the food restaurants around you close at 10, after you’ve just come home at 9:40, and have very little in the way of items or condiments, you can crumble up tortilla chips into browning lettuce and pour 2 tbsp salsa on top. You have made a taco salad.
Editor’s Note: I live in California now.
Greetings from Amazon Web Services,
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I’m going to [someday, eventually, possibly] miss this place. I’ll be living roughly here in a few weeks.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/BKRL2xpLVc4shqw0PB01NWBx_500.jpg)
