In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause
Consider an [arbitrary] piece of code. It's indoors, it's well behaved, and you can be proud of it. What is it about that code that you like? Is it elegant? Is it clever? Does it enable something? How would you measure the value of code?
Wie Skype & Co. Firewalls umgehen. Peer-to-Peer-Software ist der Albtraum eines Netzwerk-Admins. Um möglichst direkt Pakete mit dem Gegenüber austauschen zu können, bohrt sie mit raffinierten Tricks Löcher in Firewalls, die eigentlich keine Pakete von draußen reinlassen sollen.