October 2011
11 posts
September 2011
9 posts
If this then that's a cool idea →
An interesting idea, a simple way to program behaviours of web services based on certain events occurring. Will try this out soon and write about it.
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What I Heard From Microsoft Build
mswadling:
What I Saw
What I Heard
August 2011
16 posts
Hypothetically speaking →
If you were to kill HP in a year, how would you do it?
Brilliant piece.
Still think it's time to sell Apple stocks? →
Last week after the announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning from his role as CEO of Apple, there was the expected flurry of pundits claiming that the end was near for Apple and that you should sell your stocks before they crash. They’re back up now. Above the point they were before the announcement (basically back on track)
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HP's decline started when they lost their soul →
I think this is a valid point. Culture is very important in companies that are innovating. If you change the goal that your best employees were passionate about, you risk them not being passionate about the new vision. That can seriously hurt your ability to innovate and be a leader in your field.
What the huge sales of the $99 TouchPad tells us... →
The answer is pretty much spot on.
Sure, lets just blame the hardware →
as anyone running Photoshop on a Mac Pro knows: fast, multicore processors don’t help most architectural inefficiencies in software.
Marco Arment on the HP’s claim that if they had better hardware webOS would be fine. Rose-colored glasses indeed.
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it...”
– Albert Einstein
History of online activism →
Interesting piece about some of the successful activism efforts on the internet. As a student activist, this sort of look at the larger picture of how the internet has helped connect us is very inspiring
