Yup, Consumer Electronics Still Suck
I’m reminded again just how crappy traditional consumer electronics are. My inlaws have a recently purchased Vizio Internet-enabled TV. It is, on its own, a decent product by the standards of the...
View ArticleWhat the Technology Press and Bloggers Doesn’t Understand About Apple (or the...
John Gruber and others have done good work highlighting the ravings of Apple’s doomsayers and trying to understand what makes them tick. I’ve been ranting and raving about what’s wrong with the...
View ArticleFor Consideration
Consider these two perspectives on overlapping problem domains: Fast, Good, Cheap. You can only pick two. vs: Make it work Make it right Make it fast
View ArticleWhat Debt Does Personal Computing Owe to the Past?
Last week Dave Winer posted about the important, if obscured, influence of MacWrite and MacPaint after being surprised that a younger techie he was talking to had never heard of either of them. He...
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There is a difference between being an investor (putting your own money at risk in the hope of a positive return) and an investment manager (putting someone else’s money at risk in exchange for a...
View ArticleOn Apple’s Hiring of Kevin Lynch, Former Adobe CTO
Yesterday the news came out that Apple had hired Kevin Lynch away from Adobe, where he served as CTO. The hire hasn’t been without controversy. Over on Daring Fireball, John Gruber reacted to the news...
View ArticleComcast expands its mobile reach.
Comcast is now turning the WiFi routers it rents to cable Internet customers into neighborhood hotspots. Comcast is transforming its customers’ home modems into public Wi-Fi hotspots by adding a second...
View Article2013 Apple WWDC Reactions
I’ve been skimming over the coverage of the keynote presentation at Apple’s WWDC and I thought I’d post some of my reactions: New “Mavericks” branding of OS X releases is interesting. I didn’t know the...
View ArticleWWDC and MOOCs
I have been overwhelmed by the spread of what some have been calling MOOCs (massive, open, online classrooms). I remain enthusiastic about the potential for an internet-catalized revolution in...
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Rapidics Accelerates my Machine Learning Learning
For the past week or so, I’ve been digging into the topic of machine learning. It’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time. I’ve done some reading on the subject, and collected links to...
View ArticleAnnouncing Hackulink
A driver for feeding data from an Acu-Rite Acu-link internet bridge into weewx. Download or learn more
View ArticleUser Experience Matters: Airbus A380 edition
The New York Times provides an illustration of why economic models that fail to give adequate weight to user experience often end badly (and expensively), in this article about the Airbus A380. Are you...
View ArticleSilicon Valley & Parachute Journalism | Om Malik
Tech coverage generally sucks, some just sucks worse… Silicon Valley & Parachute Journalism | Om Malik.
View ArticleSoftware Developers
I note, with some interest, a collection of blog posts from earlier this summer. It starts with a post by developer named Ed Finkler titled “The Developer’s Dystopian Future.” An excerpt: I find...
View ArticleApple Said to Reap Fees From Banks in New Payment System – Bloomberg
A few months after Apple released the first iPhone, they cut the price by $200 because…well, we don’t know. It could be that sales were below what they expected, or it could be that it doing better...
View ArticleOn Sacrifice, iPhones and Devotion
A friend on Facebook (who works for Motorola) is doing his level best to help people understand what people sacrifice when they choose an iPhone 6 over one of Motorola’s latest offerings. I can only...
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Intel thinks your gadgets need a bowl of their own.
For years, people have been “recharging” with a bowl after a long, hard day. Soon, their electronics devices, will be able to do the same, thanks to Intel’s Humboldt County product design studio. If it...
View ArticleThe future of nations
This morning, in my car on the way to an appointment, I was listening to NPR’s The Takeaway. I felt like I caught a glimpse of the future of the nation-state in a common thread connecting their story...
View ArticleOn Moore’s Law’s and the Apple Watch
Today, Jean Louis-Gassée shared some thoughts on forecasting demand for the Apple Watch. He is thoughtful about the impact Moore’s Law will have on the higher-end models, writing: But the biggest...
View ArticleDaring Fireball: Dazzling Results
It’s amazing how some people can just not get it when it comes to Apple in particular, and the technology industry in general. John Gruber tends to get it, which he demonstrates in this post...
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