There will be a point sometime between 20 where SSD & processor speeds, sizes and costs are where I need them to be for the amount of data I (will) have. Today an ultrabook or MacBook Air but with a touch screen are the closest to what I want. Unfortunately the higher cost of having someone speak English natively outweighs the efficiency of not having to touch email today. I experimented with having an hourly admin in Texas reply to all my email. Typically the latter option is the most efficient for all kinds of tasks. I could spend hours figuring it out, do it manually or just pay someone $1 in the Philippines to do it for me. There is no programatic way to shift my Amazon Wishlist to my local library. Perhaps if the state didn't compete in the book industry there would be even more efficient access Netflix for books.Īnother common hack I use is to hire people on oDesk and other freelancing sites for various tasks. King County will even lend you certain books to your Nook or Kindle. My Amazon Wishlist is sufficiently long that there is always something interesting about to pop out of the hold queue I have at the library. I don't care how I get the information, therefore I may as well have the lowest cost access. For example a book can be Kindle, Nook, Hardback, HB 2nd hand, Paperback, PB 2nd hand, Library, audio book (), Library audio book. I'm keenly aware that the same information can be had in multiple forms. I refuse, typically, to buy Kindle or other books with a zero resale value. King County in Washington State has the most traffic of any US library, or so they claim. That means plane flights, queuing and other apparent wastes of time can be used to catch up on old Hacker News. From there I can just tap on things and read them later, at any time, with Instapaper on my iPad or Windows Phone. I have a script which mails to Instapaper the Hacker News front page twice a day. Synchronous communication is terribly wasteful when it's just you and the Internet, reading news or Reddit. I back up everything in 3 places automatically, partially with BackBlaze. I use VirtualBox to carry Ubuntu around with me.
#Instapaper software architecture mac os x
Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.7.4, Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS 5.
I'm looking to a future where all of the above is one device too. I remember when starting OpenStreetMap that to be effective I needed to carry at minimum a digital camera, a GPS device, iPod and a phone.
I often carry 3 or more computers around. My desktop is some Dell thing with 4 gigantic monitors I scavenged.
#Instapaper software architecture series
I have a Lenovo X201 laptop, 2010 MacBook Pro, Samsung Series 7 Slate, Samsung Focus, iPhone 4 and an iPad 3. I'm Steve Coast and I'm a Principal PM Architect at Microsoft.
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