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Microsoft hires some of the smartest people in the world…It’s not an issue of people being smart and talented. It’s that design at Apple is at the highest level of the organization, led by Steve personally. Design at other companies is not there. It is buried down in the bureaucracy somewhere… In bureaucracies many people…
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collabprojekt: The French electronic duo, Daft Punk, have announced that they will be making several in-person appearances for Tron – the Disney film they produced the soundtrack for – with the soundtrack for the movie coming out in November. They’ll be playing live sets at film screenings in major cities, and might be at the…
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Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft
Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft So, what did Gillett tell me? He said that laptop usage is flat, or even slightly declining, and that mobile usage is on fire and growing a great percentage every month. Take that trend out two more years, which is when we…
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immerseyourselfincode: Some visual notes from a subject I’ve been pondering today. I was listening to the Stanford Programming Methodology lectures on my way in and the professor was very strongly advocating the idea that code ought to be written from the “top down” meaning that you start in the problem space defining abstractions which will…
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New MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Flash
New MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Flash infinite-style: You have to admire their conviction, the new MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Adobe Flash pre-installed. For those that don’t know Adobe Flash has come pre-installed with OS-X for as long as I can remember. You can of course still install it yourself. I wonder if this…