Link. The system “wants” specialization, but we can’t parse the why.
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Collaborative writing tools: gDoc v Word online and rest.
Link. Word is only software many corporate users understand.
Oracle, IBM, AWS: past and future.
Link. Nobody likes Larry. Great background.
Arms treaties: Zero knowledge proofs and the “jackass” treaty.
Link. Soviet explanation for violating bioweapon treaty is worth remembering.
Muscular dystrophy drug approved incorrectly.
Link. Hope FDA can stomach the withdrawal.
Formal method programming delivers.
Link. We need this.
Pipeline deeply irritated by MSFT cancer cure PR.
Link. Failed at mobile, so why not try medicine?
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative: better than it sounded.
Link. Credit due.
Longstanding Alzheimer’s mouse models may be worthless.
Link. Flush billions of dollars.
Living With Schizophrenia: My Father’s Perfect Family.
Link. Wisdom isn’t fun to learn.
Shorter NYT on Wells Fargo: Fire Stumpf.
Link. Fire board and all of Stumpf’s reports down 2 layers. For cause.
Life after Moore’s Law: software in silicon.
Link. Hard to fix bugs…
Browsers for old Macs.
Link. I’m reverting a Lion machine to Snowie. Wasn’t useable with 2GB and Lion.
One week, 31 lies. Guess who.
Link. I’ve never known anyone to lie so much.
China decides 200 Chinese Jews from a thousand year old tradition are security threat.
Link. China is going quietly nuts.
Hydroxychloroquine injures retina before clinical retinopathy develops.
Link. Depressing but unsurprising. Sunglasses help? Now to study dose-response. Brain?
Maciej’s Pinboard is a contender for longest lived microblog platform.
Link. Thirty years reasonably likely.
NYC has seen waves of bombings for over 100 years.
Link. Humans accommodate.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Economics.
Link. Excellent.
Conversation AI: Google tech for conversation control.
Link. NYT is using this to augment human moderators. Brave new 84.
Russian troll farms (Finnish, 2014).
Link. Given what we now know … Remember Ender’s Game?
Cruz surrenders last shred of integrity.
Link. GOP 2016 2nd choice was worse than Trump.
NYT on last days of Twitter.
Link. Will go cheap. Rupert Murdoch? Chinese tech giant? Verizon?
Civilians are using Sierra’s storage management. Catastrophe ensues.
Link. Like lambs to the slaughter.
Whacko winger doc “group” manufactures medical conspiracies.
Link. Would make anyone a bit paranoid.
Smartphones for All: ability enhancements – Communications, Learning, Memory, Mobility…
Link. Planning …
iTunes/App Store Genre browsing web UI.
Link. Bit of a secret. Ontology not deep enough though – too many leaf items.
Textbook publishers block use of used books, increase profits and college costs.
Link. California needs to do its own textbooks.
Japan’s carriers collude with Apple to keep refurb/older iPhones out of market.
Link. I suspect Apple does something similar in US.
“iOS 10 Music app is a basket of deplorable interface choices”
Link. Unimportant projects get the interns. Oh, wait …
Apple Watch gets closer to interesting.
Link. If bike integration and podcast support improve …
What Scrivener does poorly (or not at all).
Link. Issues with tables and all compiled output.
Chicago violence: gangs sure, but why?
Link. Going the way of Detroit.
Publisher e-book price increases shrink base.
Link. Preserving territory. I still say DRM matters.
Australia’s high speed continent requires regular GPS adjustments.
Link. Coordinate remapping.
Zapier review of online store options.
Link. Zapier’s service is too expensive for me, but these blog reviews are excellent.
Goofball zillionaire funds human cure-all project.
Link. We need more taxation of billionaires.
nvALT 2.2: a fix for Sierra.
Link. BitWriter, alas, does not support Simplenote.
Critiquing Clinton’s odd campaign.
Link. What is she for?
Springsteen. The review.
Link. I remember Winterland.
Yahoo breach legal liabilty may exceed company value.
Link. Investigating one hack exposed much bigger. China?
Forever war: Afghanistan.
Link. $10-$20 billion a year to achieve non-collapse.
Euler Graph Theory algorithm in Google Trips AI itinerary generation.
Link. They are good at this.
Google Trips: AI travel itinerary planning.
Link. Integrates saved places from Google Maps.
Aperture on Sierra: Mixed results.
Link. Some see improvement, other’s grave issues. Cautious optimism for Feb 2017 timeframe?
Australian aboriginal history: more details, more complexity.
Link. Better article on how critical this population is to understand human story.
Aboriginal Australians part of the 50-70K human diaspora.
Link. Was possible they were uniquely separate.
Standard model: free poster PDF from a physics education project.
Link. No quantum field theory …
Vulnerable user computing: ditch the laptop.
Link. Nobody is going to build solutions for non-pocketable devices (Android, iOS).
Bad job, good life – alleged bipartisan consensus.
Link. Obscuring fed role by tax policy is very inefficient.