Tim Bray
Tim Bray
Timothy William Brayis a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur and one of the co-authors of the original XML specification. He has worked for Amazon Web Services since December 2014 and previously for Google, Sun Microsystems, the Digital Equipment Corporationand several start-ups...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 June 1955
CountryCanada
billions dollars enterprise magnitude orders stop time worth
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
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Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.
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From the point of view of the company, it has been really all upside: the costs have been low, there haven't been any problems and it has been a huge business success,
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The total numbers (of fake sites) must be mind-boggling... The software that's generating these things is pretty sophisticated; you might think (the sites) were real at first glance.
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...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.
goal speech tools
Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.
ideas years months
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.
community risk velocity
The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.
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The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.
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It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.