what were you expecting?

folks seem to be irked re: the instagram terms of service. i don’t know what they were expecting. it’s free, polished app which requires serious ergs in terms of engineering efforts expended. instagram’s a prodigious consumer of network bandwidth and storage (those pictures aren’t trivial to store at massive scale) and folks haven’t exactly been shouldering the burden for this delivery by opening their wallets. but seriously, “awful” or as someone couched it, “shameful”?...

December 18, 2012 · steve ulrich

the only awkward part ...

this has been making the rounds. ...

September 10, 2012 · steve ulrich

init replacements

the nice thing about linux and the let a thousand flowers bloom mode of operation is the explosion of different init replacements you have to choose from. ...

August 13, 2012 · steve ulrich

what are you trying to tell me?

nevermind, i suppose i get it. ...

July 27, 2012 · steve ulrich