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100 Years of IBM
- Nursie 2y agoAgain? They had one 12 years ago!
- caleblloyd 2y agoYea that was on display at my onboarding in 2012. The 1940s segment skipped over the complicity towards their German partnership with the Nazis in the Holocaust so it was pretty lost on me.
- pjmlp 2y ago[flagged]
- trwm 2y agoThere is a difference of degree between running Treblinika and supporting the US military. A piece of computer history everyone should know is that holocaust tattoos were IBM punch card codes.
- pjmlp 2y agoFor those that die at hands of missiles, drones, and three letter agency practices in no man's land, and their families, not really.
- trwm 2y agoHow fortunate are they whose families are still alive to mourn them.
- pjmlp 2y agoOnly when those SV customers fail at 100% hit rate.
- cess11 2y agoYeah, unlike many palestinians, cambodians, vietnamese, guatemalans, and so on. Not sure whether I'd prefer to resist and die or resist and have my kids suffer from depleted uranium like in south Iraq.
- hulitu 2y ago> resist and have my kids suffer from depleted uranium like in south Iraq. or like in Serbia and its neighbours.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoDepleted uranium was not used in the NATO aerial bombing campaign in the former Yugoslavia, despite what coping Serbs claim. Conventional high explosive munitions are damaging enough without making up bullshit.
- pinewurst 2y ago[flagged]
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- DeathArrow 2y agoWhy did former giants like IBM and AT&T became insignifiant? It's bad management, it's ossification? Are Microsoft, Apple and Google condemned to the same fate?
- ikari_pl 2y agoIMHO Google may be a good example. They shifted their entire philosophy from innovation to securing their profitability. And it seems there's nothing more boring to the media than a company that's stable. IBM is not insignificant, it just doesn't get much attention in the headlines.
- bee_rider 2y ago“The Innovator’s Dilemma” came out in the 90’s, but I bet it would still be an ok place to start (I haven’t actually read it, but it is a famous book).
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoDuuuude, you honestly should read it
- waldothedog 2y agoSeconding! It isn’t the easiest read, but there are some good lessons/concepts
- worthless-trash 2y agoDo you think its still relevant today (I also have not read it, but its on my list) ?
- ghc 2y agoIt's not the kind of book that would become irrelevant within our current economic system. It uses examples from the 19th through end of 20th centuries to illustrate its points, but they're just examples.
- qrian 2y agoWhy are there so many links to irrelevant wikipedia links, such as [wood], [woman], and [boon]? Did they just run a software to tag every noun with a wikipedia article?
- rahkiin 2y agoThey’re giving Wikipedia the hard-needed inlinks for search engines.
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- OJFord 2y agoSometimes I wish Wikipedia would get more JS-y, and have no hyperlinks as such in text, but you could click on any word (or something) to go to page if it has one. Because I've had this the other way around too, where it's not linked and I have to go there myself because I actually do want it. (And that can also be because the word was linked elsewhere on the page.)
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoSeriously, I want to see those wooden IBM product mockups and ordered xenon, not a Wikipedia article on wood.
- hajimuz 2y agoTechnically the name of IBM is 100 years old. But the company is 110 years old now.
- hggh 2y ago> But the company is 110 years old now Almost 113 ("14th day of June 1911"): https://books.google.ch/books?id=_8tFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3428&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.ch/books?id=_8tFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3428&redi...
- Animats 2y agoIBM's own video at 100.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59haQ44b7Uc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59haQ44b7Uc
- l1k 2y ago"They Were There" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVCePfMXAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVCePfMXAU
- black_13 2y ago[dead]
- JSDevOps 2y agoOld school mentality of work 70 hours a week 9 - 5 and unpaid overtime chained to a desk and you’ll get promoted. Except when you don’t when we need to save cash because of you know dividends.