Dumping Ground for Random Stuff

what people are saying...

   "Adam Rocks.  He invented the Internet.  He may also have invented Al Gore.
    He certainly invented several interesting varieties of tomato sauce that
    nobody at Oracle can hope to match, and forget about Redmond - no chance."
      - Mark Searle, former COO, Internet Pictures (1999)

   "not half as full-of-sh*t as [in 1992]" - Jon Forrest, UC Berkeley CompSci (1995)

   "better drunk than sober" - ex-girlfriend (1994)

   "leader in five-minute perl hacks" - engineering team, Internet Pictures (2000)

   "I consider myself a decent programmer, but in fairness, I must confess that
    I cannot even compare myself to uber-hackers like Adam Sah and Mary Tork
    Roth." - Paul Aoki, Researcher, Xerox PARC  (the feeling's mutual, Paul) (1993)
    (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aoki/)

career

   recruiters please note: as of November, 2004 I'm now a manager at Google, and yes that's arguably an oxymoron.

   resume.txt -- resume (no hyperlink intentional)
   infoweek 5/1/2000: yacking about Dynamai
   saying great things about NetApp filers
   quoted in Shift Magazine

technology predictions

   prediction                                                     date   action
   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   MP3 will dominate digital music............................... 1998   bought an empeg car stereo
   laptops will become commodities............................... 1998   replaced my workstationmade with a laptop 
   for developers, dual CPU systems crush single-CPU............. 1997   bought one, convinced Cohera to buy them
   IDE beats SCSI for desktops and servers....................... 1996   bought dual-IDE compute server
   Internet advertising esp. DoubleClick, will become big........ 1996   wrote adserver for Inktomi search engine (doh!)
   Digital cameras will replace 35mm............................. 1995   bought Kodak DC260 (1996), sold 35mm
   The Internet/Web will become the "information superhighway",   1995   joined Inktomi, wrote mass customization engine
     ie. something will take off and it won't be re-engineered... 1994   wrote an article for Wired's sixth issue
   Linux will become dominant Unix, will win server market....... 1994   wrote MS thesis using Linux laptop
   Java (Oak) will become the next major programming language,
     esp. garbage collection, simple syntax, exceptions, threads. 1993   learned Java (doh: didn't buy SUNW)

   some bad guesses: (not sure of dates)
    - WinCE eventually beats Palm  (took much too long...)
    - internet stock bubble burst will be capped at -50%  (big big oops)

articles & publications

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