A lot of technology gets built through layering new systems on top of old ones to the point where some stacks look like an archeological dig at Troy. There is nothing wrong with that approach per se, except that over time some of the lower layers become a constraint on what can be done above them. A classic example of that has been operating systems. Sometimes they have to be revised, for instance to account for the move from 32-bit to 64-bit architectures. Sometimes they have to be replaced ...

In my personal public markets portfolio I am long a number of robotics companies because I see robotics as one of the big secular trends that’s investible. As we are getting more and more robots in different form factors (including drones and even 3D printers), I am curious whether there is a need for a realtime OS. I would love to hear from folks active in these communities to learn what they are using and what they see as promising. For instance, is anything on this Wikipedia list exciting?...

When it comes to files we are beginning to take synchronization as a given. You work on a file at work and through the magic of Dropbox or similar services the copy of that file on your personal laptop winds up reflecting the changes. Increasingly we are expecting the same for applications. For example, when you have read a Direct Message on a Twitter App and then notice that it is still shown as unread in the web applications we experience that as a bug. This enduser expectation of data and ...

A lot of technology gets built through layering new systems on top of old ones to the point where some stacks look like an archeological dig at Troy. There is nothing wrong with that approach per se, except that over time some of the lower layers become a constraint on what can be done above them. A classic example of that has been operating systems. Sometimes they have to be revised, for instance to account for the move from 32-bit to 64-bit architectures. Sometimes they have to be replaced ...

In my personal public markets portfolio I am long a number of robotics companies because I see robotics as one of the big secular trends that’s investible. As we are getting more and more robots in different form factors (including drones and even 3D printers), I am curious whether there is a need for a realtime OS. I would love to hear from folks active in these communities to learn what they are using and what they see as promising. For instance, is anything on this Wikipedia list exciting?...

When it comes to files we are beginning to take synchronization as a given. You work on a file at work and through the magic of Dropbox or similar services the copy of that file on your personal laptop winds up reflecting the changes. Increasingly we are expecting the same for applications. For example, when you have read a Direct Message on a Twitter App and then notice that it is still shown as unread in the web applications we experience that as a bug. This enduser expectation of data and ...