July 2009
28 posts
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“The productivity of a software engineer has increased 2-3 times that of a...”
– Auren Hoffman, Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
June 2009
25 posts
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NYC's "Big Apps" Contest →
“For the first stage of the contest, which will be called Big Apps, the city will release what Bloomberg described as a ‘huge volume of data’ from various city agencies. (That means the data will be made available in a machine-readable format that’s conducive to programming.) He gave the example of creating a mobile application out of the Health Department’s restaurant...
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“In short: We who publish must learn how to say what we don’t know at least as...”
– Jeff Jarvis, Product v. Process Journalism: The Myth of Perfection v. Beta Culture [via]
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“In a world of ongoing technological acceleration, today’s cutting-edge brain...”
– Jamais Cascio, Get Smarter
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“On the eve of yet another fare hike, transit advocates have themselves to blame....”
– Benjamin Kabak, Who pays attention to the needs of the subways?
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“…the privilege of establishing what value the default is set at is an act...”
– Kevin Kelly, Triumph of the Default
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Gates, Ballmer To Get Liver Transplants, Too →
“‘People have accused us of simply following in Apple’s footsteps and copying everything they do years later,’ said Ballmer. ‘That is simply untrue. Organ replacement for top level Microsoft executives has been planned for some time now….’” [via rit in email]
The NY Senate: Free and Open-Source Software &... →
“Under this program the New York Senate will, for the first time ever, give developers and other users direct access to its data through APIs and release its original software to the public. By placing the data and technological developments generated by the Senate in the public domain, the New York Senate hopes to invigorate, empower and engage citizens in policy creation and...
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“…people tend to do software risk analysis by thinking of the severe risks...”
– Bruce Schneier, in Imagining Threats, referencing Magne Jørgense’s paper More Risk Analysis Can Lead to Increased Over-Optimism and Over-Confidence
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“It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data,...”
– Robinson, Yu, Zeller, and Felten, Government Data and the Invisible Hand [via]
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“The most [beautiful] places are those that reveal layers of time. They accrue...”
– Kevin Kelly, Technophilia
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A.P. in Deal to Share Investigative Work From... →
Richard Pérez-Peña: “Starting on July 1, the A.P. will deliver work by the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and ProPublica to the 1,500 American newspapers that are A.P. members, which will be free to publish the material.” [via]
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“I don’t know why, but techies in New York just don’t turn out for events at the...”
– Joel Spolsky, Conferences in New York
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Don’t negotiate on your estimates →
Matt Wilson: “From a salesman’s perspective, you don’t close deals by acknowledging why the prospect doesn’t need what you’re selling. You close deals by overcoming objections. The salesman’s natural instinct is to see an obstacle and wear it down. So the key is not to feed that. Instead, stonewall them. Over time, they’ll respect you more because of it.”
Boxqueue →
Boxqueue let you use a bookmarklet to save web videos to watch later to on Boxee (sort of like Instapaper but for videos instead of articles) [via]
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“The private insurance market is a mess. It’s supposed to cover the sick...”
– Ezra Klein, Health Care Reform for Beginners: The Many Flavors of the Public Plan
“Oversize institutions disproportionately influence public policy; the major...”
– Simon Johnson, The Quiet Coup
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“Quality journalism is expensive, and to the extent that it provides a public...”
– Dan Conover, The newspaper suicide pact
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“Microsoft is making an enormous bet on the how the world used to work, and I...”
– Mark Hurst on Microsoft’s strategy in A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft’s Bing search engine
TOSBack →
EFF’s site which tracks Terms-Of-Service changes over time for various popular web sites and services. [via]
“One thousand live cameras always-on make downtowns safe from pickpockets, nab...”
– Kevin Kelly, Increasing Ubiquity