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Professional Manager does not necessarily mean Competent Manager.

Thanks for posting this, it looks fantastic, and as if it will actually hit the market.

I think he's betting on being able to implement better than apple. He states: My biggest challenge isn’t winning over converts from my competitors: it’s explaining what Instapaper …

This is brilliant, and made me laugh. I can just see a thief looking at the vespa, the chain, the parking meter and thinking 'It's a crime anyways, may as well get the 15$ in chang…

Ah, that explains it. I had just assumed it was a blog post, but it was actually supposed to be journalism. Through that lens, what you say makes perfect sense.

Everyone’s dreamt of flying free as a bird. Nano is for the fun of flying Interesting how true this must be. We've heard promise of practical personal flying machines for decades ,…

I'm really liking this thread. Everytime someone tries to dismiss a major or course as being somehow inferior, another person chimes in with a view point that blows said dismissal …

You probably already know this, but if you have a significant number of hosts: for i in `seq 1 30`; do \ echo -e "\nhost$i\n===========\n"; \ ssh host$i 'ln -s /some/path /path/to/…

That's a little harsh. If he understands how PKI works. If he understands that people share a public key which is in turn paired with a private key. And if he understands that said…

ifconfig is deprecated, so probably a good idea to get out of that habit. Particularly if you are using it in scripts. 'ip addr' should give you all the information that 'ifconfig'…

Center appears to be mandatory. They use gestures started outside of the center as 'macros', able to be custom bound to frequently used phrases or words.

He seems to be saying that Sun's stance will be let the Open JDK develop, and roll that into the official package. I thought this would be good news. Sun has a shaky future and a l…

Right on.

Nowhere near the same level of disappointment, but it is kind of sad that an article from the NYTimes lacks any mention that they tried to contact Amazon for a comment. Even a simp…

Evernote works great. It syncs to a web client which then syncs to native clients which are available on Mac, iPhone, and Windows. Not as fast as Simplenote appears to be, but exce…

Jobs had the transplant in Tennessee, which has shorter wait lists for livers: "According to data provided by UNOS, in 2006, the median number of days from joining the liver waitin…

This is just marketing. I doubt anyone is actually pissed off, they are just whipping up drama to make sure everyone knows how mystical the CrunchPad will be. It really does sound …

I've also been using it to compile technical notes. The iPhone client is pretty slick too. Comes in handy when at the command line of a server without internet access in the datace…

This will probably be a good thing for the app in the long run. - Eventually it will get into the app store - All the publicity, fovorable reviews, and outrage over it will probabl…

Obama is also making it easier to invest in small businesses and startups, according to the whitehouse blog: "... a series of tax cuts for small businesses and tax incentives to en…

The japanese journalist misquoted in the wired article twitters quite a bit in both japanese and english, and even has an english blog. He was pretty upset when the article hit, an…

I'm in the Tokyo area and interested, but am a mere wannabe hacker. jon at kurami dot com