fighting the lack of good ideas
Google bought Android and made great things with it. They also had an interesting audacity to announce an “open, modular” phone that ‘anyone’ could design from, and make components that would play nicely together (like IBM did with their initial ISA architecture releases back in the 80s). (Microsoft then flipped the tables on IBM and…
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Several years ago, we lost my great-uncle Don. This is a story from him, as handed-down by my dad. We had been fishing all day. Rowed north and south across the pond. Rowed east and west across the pond. Saw turtles sunning themselves on low tree branches. It was hot. It was muggy. It was…
The slide deck for my recent talk on “Embracing the Change Freeze” – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OaKAYixc1mAH2OFCBaeDbbZRW2w9Q5siDemldNBp7qY/edit?usp=sharing Presented at the January PHPUG / Tech Talks meetup in Lexington KY on 19 Jan.
Recently on one of the podcasts I listen to, I heard an offhanded comment made about how history is taught not in patterns but as facts. For example, “On the 18th of April in ’75, hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year”. Rarely are the “whys” explained – understandably…
In e99 of Exponent, Ben Thompson makes a compelling case for his idea that Amazon Echo (Alexa) is an operating system – and that Amazon has beaten Apple (with Siri) and Google Home (with Assistant) at the very game they both try to play. And I think he’s onto the start of something (he goes…
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