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Leonard B. Stern, Creator of Mad Libs, Dies at 88(nytimes.com)
1 points by steveb 15y ago|1 comments
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by steveb 15y ago
I'm getting in the habit of using git everywhere. If I am going to make any changes to a config file, I just initialize a repo in that directory and make my changes. This is great to track what was done during outages when normal controls a
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by steveb 15y ago
I kept thinking about the iPad as I watched the video. Nintendo sees opportunity in freeing users from the TV, Apple sees opportunity in freeing users from desktops. Nintendo, being a game company, keeps the console as the focus, and has th
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by steveb 15y ago
Apple is trying to build a massive moat around their iOS/OSX ecosystem. If they can execute, it will be difficult for competitors to convert iOS users to other platforms. -Applications synced across multiple devices -music, photos, ca
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by steveb 15y ago
Even with a minority share, Google has all the initiative in the browser market right now. They have forced their competitors to speed up development and support standards. Rapid releases, HTML 5 support and fast javascript engines benefit
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Simple Harmonic Motion (kinetic art)(sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)
2 points by steveb 15y ago|0 comments
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by steveb 15y ago
How about Iridium? Over $5 billion invested, sold for $25 million. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/35043 Right now it is hard to compete with bing.com, losing 2.5 billion per year.
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by steveb 15y ago
The numbers are horrible, and Google is growing revenue almost twice as fast as Bing (27% YoY vs. 14%). In the last quarter, Google growth in revenue from the same quarter last year was almost 3X Bing total revenues. http://investor.google
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by steveb 16y ago
Totally not accurate, but if you assume a 40/7 ratio of iPad to iPad2 installed base and about 18 million original iPad's out there, you get over 3 million iPad 2 sales over the past two weeks. The entire US PC industry (including Apple) is
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by steveb 16y ago
I am 41, and recently moved from management into a development role within the same company (a large Fortune 500 company). I managed a team of UNIX SA's and was doing a decreasing amount of technical work over the past few years. I was tryi
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by steveb 16y ago
1997 was the year that Michael Dell gave the advice that Apple should close up shop and return the money to the shareholders. As a company and brand, Apple was in bad shape: Windows 95 was a huge success and Windows NT was growing in the en
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by steveb 16y ago
IMHO from a large-enterprise perspective: 1) A failure to execute. They were increasingly unable to compete in the high-end UNIX server market against IBM. The Rock processor was constantly delayed. Their machines fell behind in performance
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by steveb 16y ago
It may run on Itanium, but it doesn't support more than a fraction of the x86 server functionality. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772344(WS.10).a... I don't see how Microsoft will ever shed the x86 legacy in Windows. Intel
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by steveb 16y ago
For a time you could buy U.S. savings bonds online with a credit card. So the common trick was: 1) Get a rewards credit card (Citi had at 5% rebate card at the time if you wanted cash, but there were also other rebate cards like frequent fl
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by steveb 16y ago
There are a lot of open issues with ssh keys, especially in an internal environment with a lot of end users. Is is difficult to control the distribution of keys or force a key password policy. 1) Users will copy their .ssh directories to ev