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From time to time, I post the technical exploits of my friend Eric here. I remember the attention he got a while back for hacking his MacBook Pro to support a RAID configuration. Well, Eric has managed to extend that experimentation to a pair of new OCZ 120GB Solid State Drives (SSD). Two OCZ Core [...]
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From Science News: Here’s a number to savor: 243,112,609-1. Its size is mind-boggling. With nearly 13 million digits, it makes the number of atoms in the known universe seem negligible, a mere 80 digits. And its form is tidy and lovely: 2n-1. But its true beauty is far grander: It is a prime number. Indeed, [...]
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This past week, the US Mint published updated material on the new, 2009 Lincoln Cent program, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the coin, and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. From the US Mint website: In 2009, the United States Mint will mint and issue four different one-cent coins in [...]
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A little too busy tonight for a long blog post, but thought I’d share how excited I am to be helping assist the launch of a new course at Stanford this Fall: CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming The class website is still a work in progress, but it will come along. The course is open [...]
Filed under: Apple, Developer, Software | Tagged: CS193P, iPhone, Programming, Stanford | 3 Comments »
From Macenstein: On a scale of “1 to Awesome” this LEGO Mac Pro rates a solid Awesome. Not only is it a faithful scale model replica of a real Mac Pro (designed using Lego Digital Designer 2.0), the thing actually houses both a Hackintosh PC running OS X AND a Mac mini. Awesome, indeed. If [...]
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Imagine my surprise. Sunday afternoon, I got on a plane to Orlando, FL. When I got on the plane, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch still existed. When I got off the plane, I checked my iPhone and saw that Merrill was now part of Bank of America, and Lehman was going Chapter 11. Bear Stearns. [...]
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There are so many reasons to love the Dutch, and MythBusters has just provided another. Many thanks to Rob Go for providing the link to this 4-minute clip, which shows that it is, in fact, impossible to pull apart two interleaved phone books, even with the use of automobiles…
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The incredibly historic economic news keeps coming this week. Truly momentous. It’s as if every article, every book, every course I’ve ever taken in modern economic history and theory was to prepare to understand the events of the past 12-24 months. In some ways, I think I’m in shock. It’s like watching history in the [...]
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Just read this piece on the “he-said/she-said” debate between NBC executives and Apple executives: Apple Refutes NBC’s Pricing Policy Claims 80/20 Apple is right here, of course. They did not give NBC any pricing priviledges that they didn’t also give to all video content producers. However, Apple did introduce it’s first pricing variation for HD [...]
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John gave a great presentation today at Stanford about Mozilla. He’s graciously shared it on Slideshare, so I’m sharing it here as well. A few bullets to think about: How distributed is the decision making in your organization, really? How much do you empower small, cross-functional teams to execute? How much does your organization really [...]
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I really have nothing more to add to this. * For those of you who aren’t Star Trek fans, Wil Wheaton played the fairly annoying boy genius Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Seema may be a pretty miserable blogger, but she’s a great product manager. And her site just went live last week. Congratulations to the team, and welcome worldofgood.com. World of Good is an attempt to produce the first, global-scale marketplace for socially beneficial goods. Yes, when you shop the site you will see badges for: [...]
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a Eulogy to eBay Express here on this blog, and it rapidly became one of my most popular posts ever. (Of course, nothing quite competes with the Battlestar Galactica posts, but I digress…) Last week, eBay quietly announced the death of Bid Assistant, a product concept that I remember [...]
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Just for reference, the “Uncanny Valley” is not some cute comment on life in Silicon Valley – it’s a popular concept in computer animation that refers to the challenges inherent in trying to produce “realistic” computer animation of human characters. I wrote a blog post on the concept back in 2006: Playstation 3, Uncanny Valley [...]
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I generally don’t write about politics here on my blog, largely because I tend to be more issue-oriented than party-oriented, and that seems to bring out fire from both sides of the aisle. Right now, I’m hopelessly behind on keeping up with the conventions – I’ve downloaded all the speeches from the DNC, but haven’t [...]
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