January 2012
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A project manager, a hardware engineer, and a programmer were in a car. Coming down a hill, a tyre got a puncture, the car went out of control, and a bad crash was only narrowly averted.
The project manager wanted everyone to help draw up a plan of how to fix the car and carry on.
The hardware engineer wanted to change the tyre and carry on.
The programmer wanted to...
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“Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were...”
– Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
tbridge: This is a phenomenal article to read the whole way through.
agreed.
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on talent
“Talent only differentiates us when we’ve already mastered skills and had a breadth of experiences. What separates the great designers from everyone else today isn’t their talent — it’s their skill and experience. Talent is the least important of those three attributes.”
- Jared Spool, How Important is Natural Talent?
December 2011
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“If you decided to purchase a new car and after you bought it, the dealership...”
– Yo Amazon: Please don’t hijack the web on Kindle Fire, GigaOM
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“You can’t spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network...”
– The Technium (via azspot)
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
– Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)
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roomthily: How Whole Foods "Primes" You To Shop →
roomthily:
Speaking of fruit, you may think a banana is just a banana, but it’s not. Dole and other banana growers have turned the creation of a banana into a science, in part to manipulate perceptions of freshness. In fact, they’ve issued a banana guide to greengrocers, illustrating the various color stages…
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at... →
“You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do - away from risk...”
– Bayles & Orland
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“In terms of stifling innovation, good ideas are far more dangerous than bad...”
– Bill Buxton, “Sketching User Experiences”
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May 2011
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“I was invited to the e-G8 and declined. I believe it’s a whitewash, an attempt...”
– Cory Doctorow (via azspot)
April 2011
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“Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more...”
– Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design (via jarredbishop)
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Copyright
“Property exists in order to provide against the evils of natural scarcity. A limitation of supply by artificial causes, creates scarcity in order to create property. To limit that which is in its nature unlimited, and thereby to confer an exchangeable value on that which, without such interference, would be the gratuitous possession of mankind, is to create an artificial monopoly which has no...
“When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out...”
– Paul Graham - Money Man - Entrepreneur.com (via bijan)
March 2011
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“The process of technological developments is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, ‘I built a cathedral.’ Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul...
Virtual war a real threat →
latimes: L.A.-based hacker Marc Maiffret was hired to probe network vulnerabilities in a large Southern California water system. It took his team one day to seize control of equipment that added chemical treatments to drinking water.
(Also, please file in the Annals of Aptronyms: The person who heads the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit is named Scott Borg.)
Steal This E-Book
(via azspot)
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you’ve dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren’t you worried about piracy? Tim O’Reilly: No. And so what? Let’s say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let’s say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000...
“I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone....”
– Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist (via mattlehrer)
February 2011
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Bill to Restrict Online Tracking Introduced in... →
infoneer-pulse:
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) introduced a bill Friday that would require online-tracking firms to allow citizens to opt out of tracking, or else face stiff fines.
The bill, known as the Do-Not-Track-Me-Online Act, intends to let people choose a no-tracking setting in their browser and have companies obey that setting. The rules would mainly apply to companies whose primary...
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“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
– Thomas Edison (via nevver)