Life as a beta geek

Last year François Joseph de Kermadec wrote an excellent piece for O’Reilly on the danger of relying on web based applications. It came to mind again today when I read about the DDOS attack on Six Apart - and one of the reactions to the attack on Make You Go Hmm, which advocated abstinence from [...]

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It’s nice to know that no-one has perfect judgement, even (especially?) Sir Alan Sugar:
“Nah, bollocks! There’s nothing in it. Every Chinese manufacturer’s got one. Next Christmas the iPod’ll be dead, finished, gone, kaput.”
(Sir Alan Sugar, interviewed in February 2005)

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