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Technological singularity refers to a prediction in Futurology that technological progress will become extremely fast, and consequently will make the future unpredictable and qualitatively different from today. It is most often associated with the ideas of futurist Ray Kurzweil. From the Wikipedia entry for “Technological singularity”. “Interesting conversations with my new roommate Ed Spencer” may […]
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Then there is Ext JS. UI maven, FLEX-ala-JS wonder, builder of UI components you could cut glass on. You could build an empire upon their grid component, templating via containers and XTemplate is a wonder, and its baked in extensibility and data “store” model is a dream. Grant Shepert, jQuery and or Ext JS (via […]
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My complaints about Apple are about unused potential; my complaints about other tech companies are about having no clue. Neven Mrgan
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Direct address comma? I’m for it, man.
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Apple was trading at $18.50 when my stock was actually purchased. … My four shares of Apple are currently worth about $1,078. Marc LaFountain waxes nostalgic on his solitary share of Apple stock
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to […]
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I don’t think ‘Fuck Shit Up Fridays’ exist, but they should. TheBlueprint
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For me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world. And, we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us, no company is. And so we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us. Our customers […]
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I like nonsense – it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss
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There’s no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There’s no knowing where we’re rowing / Or which way the river’s flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / […]
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Mr. Jobs is indeed starting to behave like that other convicted monopolist we know and love. Yet unlike the latter, Jobs did not engage in underhanded business practices to create his monopolies. They were handed to him on a silver platter by the rest of the market, which insists on peddling either outright crap or […]
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Hmmm. So giving Apple control over the iPhone is bad, but giving Adobe control over rich content on the web is fine. Hmmm. Tom Standage
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control. Alan Bennett
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The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question “How can we eat?” the second by “Why do we eat?” and the third […]
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I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. Steve Jobs. Can you blame the guy if he […]