By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: August 8, 2005
Monday, 8 August 2005
- Reddit ★
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User-rated “what’s new on the web” page. I think this is the first product to ship from one of the startups funded by Paul Graham’s Y Combinator. For what it’s worth, according to the blurb on Graham’s home page, Reddit’s written in Common Lisp.
- Paul Graham: ‘What Business Can Learn From Open Source’ ★
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New essay from Paul Graham, derived from a talk at Oscon 2005. Best line:
The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed. And it’s not just the way offices look that’s bleak. The way people act is just as bad.
He also points out:
At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t.
Another reason I think companies like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t use (and probably never even considered using) Windows-based servers is that they see Microsoft as a major competitor. It’d be foolish to depend upon a major competitor for critical infrastructure.