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Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street?
By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a co…
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Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of the British government.
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Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads"
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Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
(At Panasonic's IFA booth: People using 3D glasses and monitors to watch the live women in front of their faces.) If you determine the big story here at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths, there's no question what it is: 3D TV is everywhere. The massive boot
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market
Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to access sensitive information”. While this is technically true, one should not need a PhD in Computer Science to use a smartphone…
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"Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005]
About two years ago, the Lisp programmer and dot-com millionaire Paul Graham wrote an essay entitled Hackers and Painters , in which he argues that his approach to computer programming is better described by analogies to the visual arts than by the phrase "computer science".
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How Steve Ballmer told me what to do with my iPad
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see Steve Ballmer speak to two audiences, first at Microsoft’s Partner Briefing on transitioning to the cloud (#pbbcloud) and then at the UK TechDays Special Event on the future of cloud development (#uktechdays). I’m sorry I didn’t catch the name of the guy who asked Mr Ballmer a…
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What Business is Wall Street In?
My last two posts were designed to stimulate discussion. But lets talk the real problem that regulators, public companies, investor/shareholders and traders face. The problem is that Wall Street doesn’t know what business it is in. Regulators don’t know what the business of Wall Street is. Investor/shareholders don’t…
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Emotional Rescue
To discount the emotional appeal of Apple’s products is to ignore the entire point of Apple’s products.
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Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
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The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) (Charles Stross)
The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model.
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Flattr, and Why It's Brilliant
Flattr is an exciting new social networking / micro-payment service that allows you to set a donation amount that gets divided among all the different content y
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