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IPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing
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Goodbye, Apple
I've owned a lot of iPods. My wife has owned a lot of iPods. Not anymore. For the longest time, I could use gtkpod to seamlessly access my ...
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Apple Plus – brand versus subscription
Apple’s talk about services got specific with a bunch of news subscription services. Most of them are sensible and worthy iteration, but the company still hasn’t explained exactly what it plans with its push into commissioning billions of dollars of premium TV (Spielberg! Oprah!). Maybe all of this
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A Rare Disagreement
So why aren’t those who are criticizing Apple for taking a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue criticizing Amazon? My theory: everyone understands, intuitively, that the Kindle is a closed proprietary platform; but many people view iOS (incorrectly) as a platform like the Mac or Windows, where third parties are…
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AWS is not a dumb pipe
In 1997, David Isenberg wrote an article called the Rise of the Stupid Network. Isenberg worked at Bell Labs, the R&D lab of AT&T, and was responsible for some significant breakthroughs during the PC and the early int...
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Business Requirements are Bullshit
How do you go about gathering business requirements, so you know what to deliver to the customer?
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Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets
October 9, 2022 Latest Articles: A Look at the Lightning Network Energy: The Area Under the Curve This newsletter issue focuses on recent problems with developed country sovereign bond markets and how energy supply constraints pose an ongoing problem for them. The Sovereign Bond Bubble During much of 2019 and 2020…
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Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB
Interested in a less biased overview? We encourage you to also read the technical comparison between RethinkDB and MongoDB .
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
From a friend, a few days ago: We were supposed to be in Vienna today for a short vacation, but the city is at high risk and we […]
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Winter Is Coming for Java Updates
Winter is coming for Java updates with no free public updates in sight! Get the support you need with Zulu Community and Zulu Enterprise.
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Why you can't Kickstart a conference
FAMILIA88 membangun komunitas digital dengan pendekatan kolaboratif dan suasana kekeluargaan sehingga setiap pencapaian memiliki makna yang bertahan lama.
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The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As the sun set, the fire […]
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Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk
Explore Microsoft products and services and support for your home or business. Shop Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Surface and more.
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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
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Njalla – A privacy-aware domain registration service
FOR IMMACULATE RELEASE. Announcing the opening of NJAL.LA
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Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
According to an email sent to its customers in mid-June, Gandi.net, a major European domain name registration and web hosting company, is increasing prices across its entire suite of products.
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The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales
And 11 signs you've got it backwards
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PostgreSQL DBaaS vendor comparison and calculator
This is a comparison of PostgreSQL DBaaS providers with an interactive calculator.
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They want your ethics for $105
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was at the same time fascinating…
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CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.