Lex Spoon

I'm Lex Spoon, a software enthusiast living in Atlanta, GA. I write on Substack and on my home page in addition to here.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A Scientist's Manifesto?

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I was disheartened today to read so many glowing reviews of Robert Winston's "Scientist's Manifesto" . I think of scienc...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Why LaTeX?

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Lance Fortnow laments that no matter how crotchety he gets he can't seem to give up LaTeX : LaTeX is a great system for mathematical do...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Paul Chiusano on software patents

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Paul Chiusano reminds us why we would conceivably want software patents: What I find irritating about all the software patent discussion i...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Schrag on updating the IRBs

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Zachary Schrag has a PDF up on recent efforts to update IRBs . Count me in as vehemently in favor of two of the proposals that are apparentl...
Monday, August 8, 2011

TechDirt on the latest draft of PROTECT IP

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Tech Dirt has an analysis of the latest available version of PROTECT IP. Yesterday, we got our hands on a leaked copy of the "summary...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Brad on foreign CEOs

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Brad Templeton describes a good way to explain the current distribution of nationalities in the tech field: I gave him one suggestion, ins...

Inducing infringement alive and well

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Mitch Golden writes, in a good analysis of the legal state of LimeWire's file-sharing software, that inducing infringement was a key pa...
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