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by mehrshad 3mo ago
I'll repost what I wrote on his wall just now. Probably the most impactful SF/SV passing for me since Jobs. "I first met Om in the mid-2000s when I started in public relations. He was patient, kind – not what you’d expect fro
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Salesforce's Recent History of Overhyped Promo Videos(bloomberg.com)
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by mehrshad 5mo ago
Plex started out great for us Boxee users left in the cold, but the writing was on the wall when they started offering rentals. Product development has hit a wall in the last two years. While its UI isn't as intricate, Infuse does a fa
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by mehrshad 5mo ago
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... "Despite being described as a “cabal,” the amyloid camp was neither organized nor nefarious. Those who championed the amyloid hypothesis tr
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by mehrshad 7mo ago
Never been a fan of Pogue's 'pop tech' take on things, but GREAT interviews here with Woz, Bill Fernandez, Ron Wayne, Chris Espinoza, John Sculley(!), Robert Brunner, Avi Tevanian, and John Rubenstein - never going to see a t
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The Old House at Home (1940)(newyorker.com)
25 points by mehrshad 3y ago|3 comments
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Microsoft Azure Kinect Kits Discontinued(neowin.net)
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The New Cold War That Threatens to Turn Hot(jamestown.org)
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by mehrshad 4y ago
Microsoft's PowerToys has a great answer to Spotlight on Windows if you're so inclined to try it out. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
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by mehrshad 4y ago
As a part-time returning student at a community college - who's really just taking advantage of their fantastic advanced manufacturing facilities - most every teacher in this department subscribes to this approach. YouTube channels suc
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by mehrshad 4y ago
“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.” -A. Edward Newton
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by mehrshad 5y ago
Back in the early 2010s, I was consulting with a then-budding startup called Momentum Machines (now Creator.rest), in which I was tasked with market validation for their Rube Goldberg-esque 6mx1mx2m burger-making machine (not a robot). When
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Machine learning used to predict synthesis of complex novel materials (2021)(phys.org)
1 points by mehrshad 5y ago|0 comments
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Three things Web3 should fix in 2022(theverge.com)
3 points by mehrshad 5y ago|0 comments
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by mehrshad 5y ago
A colleague of mine was contracted by one of several firms tasked with liquidating Theranos' Newark facilities back in Aug 2018. I took the opportunity to grab the equivalent of $15,000 of tools, furniture, scientific equipment, and of
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The Philadelphia Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mehrshad 5y ago|1 comments
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by mehrshad 6y ago
As a tween who would beg his parents to take him to the OG Fremont store (Mission @ Warm Springs) back in the early 90s, and as a pimpled 14 year-old who was rejected by Fry's for a job but got scooped as a novelty hire at NCA Computer
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Elon Musk said it was ‘Not a Flamethrower’: Police around the world disagreed(techcrunch.com)
4 points by mehrshad 6y ago|0 comments
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The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World(propublica.org)
1 points by mehrshad 6y ago|0 comments
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No Drugs, No Crime and Pennies for School: How Police Use Civil Asset Forfeiture(pulitzercenter.org)
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal in patent fight with VirnetX(reuters.com)
4 points by mehrshad 7y ago|1 comments
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Up And Then Down: The lives of elevators (2008)(newyorker.com)
2 points by mehrshad 7y ago|0 comments
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WeWork Isn’t the Only Stumble for SoftBank’s Vision Fund(wsj.com)
6 points by mehrshad 7y ago|0 comments
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Mayonnaise: A Chemical Reactant That Improves Meat(nytimes.com)
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by mehrshad 7y ago
If there's any credibility behind the notion of these being deliberate in any way, I'd wager July 15/16.
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by mehrshad 9y ago
I was here just three weeks ago. It's not an ideal deprivation experience as much as it is an optimal acoustic testing lab, especially considering the vibrations you experience from trying to stay still on the lattice floor (see pictur
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by mehrshad 10y ago
Civilization and SimCity addict here. After 7+ hours of play, pushing out over 1,200 products, putting on hundreds of events for hype value, hiring good engineers and designers, hiring robots, making every product design possible, firing sa
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US secretly built 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest(sfgate.com)
23 points by mehrshad 13y ago|11 comments
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Apple to buy back counterfeit iPhone chargers in genius PR move(qz.com)
3 points by mehrshad 13y ago|0 comments
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House votes to dismantle 'No Child Left Behind', federal testing requirements(sfgate.com)
1 points by mehrshad 13y ago|0 comments

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