osewalrus for this link to a ruefully funny short article in the New York Times in 1897. As he summarizes it,This NYT piece from 1897 tells how Canadian music pirates are flooding the sheet music market with cheap, pirated copies. The U.S. music industry recommends filtering the mail.The article is well worth a read -- the parallels to current arguments run pretty deep...
I just came across this marvelous essay on the SCA fun/authenticity false dichotomy, and a different way of looking at it. It was written some…
It occurs to me that not everyone has yet come across the Twitter feed of Donaeld the Unready and associated accounts. There is a growing…
This one's just for the programmers/architects, and mainly for the experienced ones: Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Building Reactive Systems.…
