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A few years ago corporate policy meant elite had smartphone access to email, workers did not. Now workers rarely use email, instead use an archaic IM system that’s desktop only. So elite are tied to desktop again. I love how these things work out.
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I wonder if business units die by accumulating so many “C” and below employees that they can form interlocking cooperative networks that assume control. Maybe broader lessons here.
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Realized one reason tech industry loves continuous deployment and SaaS is we no longer have to worry about QA. (or we act that way…)
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The world needs OS X/iOS mind mapping sofware that natively uses the freemind file format – even if only supports a subset of all of freemind’s stuff.
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Bicycles need no more than 5 sizes of Alan wrench. We need an international blacklist of any bike related thing with any other sized socket.
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My temp mountain bike has disc brakes. Better, but more weight, more complexity and fragility, will lose hydraulic fluid if levers compressed with wheel off. Perfect model for 21st century — progress is more incremental, more tradeoffs.
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Did some testing and just realized that every user on my Mac can mount and read our encrypted backup drive. Hmmm. Not what I’d intended…
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T-mobile prepaid plans (including MVNO like ptel) can’t use Google Voice for Voicemail. Not supported. Dang.
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Occurs to me that to understand consciousness we should not only study coma, but also minds of persons with cognitive disabilities. #b
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New way I think of #1 son ( special needs). Is though he has islands of disconnected cognition going on, his conscious mind can only access some of them. #b
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Snark aside here. Most knowledge workers in corporate settings are below Steve Jobs “b player” level. They can still do good work and many managers know how to enable that (not my skill but I’m trying). …
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Truth is the first casualty of war. Virtue is the second.
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Doug Glanville is NYT regular who writes on baseball. One of my faves, a gifted writer. Pictured middle-aged white man. Today saw photo of 30ish black man. I enjoyed the sensation of assumption undone.
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I’m disappointed that journalists haven’t caught on to the modern plague of price obfuscation and concealment [notes.kateva.org] – a means to create information asymmetry and thus seller advantage. It is an economic disease spreading unnoticed ….
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@gaelicwizard “iTunes Accounts [photos.app.net]” shows up as a cellular data user in iOS system services cellular data. Do you know what this corresponds to? I’ve a hunch it is not iTunes or even App Store or iTunes Store. #b
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@oluseyi My kids have been yu-gi-oh fans at various times. Took me a long time to realize it’s a documentary of corporate life. Especially the life pints.
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What I learned from my most recent corporate failure: I should have built a better map. Not of terrain, but of people within the corporate structure.
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Price crash in international Android smartphones is what we saw with calculators in 70s. IP was “free” then too.
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“All of our little streams pour out into the ocean of total uncaring. If there are to be any claims to greatness, they are to be found only in the scope of the failure and persistence in the face of it.” And then we die. Skol! #b
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Mobile app dev profits tells us something important about modern economics and cognitive surplus. We have far more creative capacity than the current economy (= modern corporations) can profitably use.
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It is hard to imagine another sentient life form evolving on earth as long as we are around. “There can be only one.” Seems significant. Not sure how.
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I ran into a nasty iOS issue that couldn’t be fixed by restoring from iTunes backup, but was fixed (transiently?) by restoring from iCloud backup. Restore as new phone also fixed issue – a weird limit on movies that could sync to phone. #b
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The world needs a list of inexplicable iOS limitations – like inability to rename a playlist.
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Listening to In Our Time, realized Pelagius, the late Roman Stoics, modern Unitarianism and Oliver Cromwell are all tied up. Also, America.
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I wonder if delusion is more of a feature than a flaw…
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The 21st century American CEO represents corporations to investors, politicians and prosecutors. Deception essential for all, so a good CEO is very good at …
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I wonder what world would look like if we all carried signs describing our biggest current concern … #t
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I’m going to start using existence of offline help/documentation as a filter for which Mac apps I evaluate. #t
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Aperture tip: If you use the Vault, try restoring to an empty Aperture database periodically. I’m testing a restore now and I’m not at all sure this works. If it does work expect it to take a very long time, and involve a stuck progress bar.
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So what are core tribal values of 2014 liberal? Tolerance. Relativism. Both of which weaken susceptibility to tribal value meme. Tribal memes that exclude memes right is susceptible too.
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@clarkgoble Yes, the pressure is irresistible. We will rent software and services, pay by cash, attention, selling access to our data and our selves. Switching services will become impossible.
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Limits of backup — looking for an Aperture album I thought I had. Can’t find it. Am I misremembering? Did I accidentally delete it? Is Aperture corrupted? I can mount my five month old offsite backup and test…
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Curious silence – 4 days post Aperture termination a leading digital asset management alternative has no blog post about buying a competitive product [blog.phaseone.com]. Weird.
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… enhanced version of iOS combined with iCloud could yield 80% of Aperture by 2013. So why keep OS X and Mac? “Ask not for whom the bell tolls …” #b
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I think Reeder.app for iOS crashes constantly with Pinboard edits because author is not using iOS native text API. Guessing he hated auto-correct. Awful decision.
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Across all platforms there is one pro level photo management solution left. Similar for music and video. We have a business problem with elite software. #t
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Workforce depletion: what fraction is due to change in parental death? Long frailty through 80s rather than abrupt death in active 50-75? #b
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Fascinating to watch the evolution of a NYT headline over lifespan of an article. As end nears get more hot button. Wonder when articles will change too.
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Lost learning: Reminded today of a spectacular corporate failure that killed several business units, maybe a division. Bodies all buried or in witness protection, archives purged, memories deleted, name unspeakable. Lessons passed only in whispers…
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Working a bit with windows 2012 server. I wonder how many understand all of its interactions. UI transitions span decades of interface conventions. Is it most complex product ever sold commercially? #idlethoughts
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In Star Trek original Spock says the falsehood that Vulcans cannot lie is often useful. I think of that when I read that kids with Asperger’s cannot lie.
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@wickedgood Amazon may be unbeatable now. My thesis is publishers have only one option left – Watermarking DRM. Do or die. Or do and die. But do. // @phoneboy @clarkgoble
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@clarkgoble It’s worse than people not caring; even tech journalists don’t get FairPlay vs. ADEPT vs AmazonDRM. Or ePUB vs. AXW vs. KF8. My thesis/hunch is that value of DRM-lite strategy does not depend on DRM understanding. I agree with Doctorow.
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Reading NYT by RSS means I get to see their A/B experiments with headlines. Interesting to see evolution in action.
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NYT sinosphere blog is a neat experiment. A local newspaper for China. Since NYT is banned anyway, why not speak truth to corruption?
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Excel has no built in functionality for writing data into a linked SQL Server table. This is an odd omission, there are lots of business applications where this would be quite helpful. Anyone know if Microsoft lost a patent fight and had to avoid this?
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Occurred to me I could use Chrome to run web interface to iCloud and thus edit iCloud Contacts Group/Card relationships on iPhone – otherwise not possible. Nope, Apple gives me mobile version. Don’t suppose this is fixed in iOS 8. Sigh.
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Between ransomware, paying for henchbots, and the protection money DDOS industry, the modern net is recapitulating Putin’s Russia or 20th cent Sicily. Not anarchy, instead a mafia state. #b
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New release of Reeder 2.0 – now with more crashes. Pinboard component less stable. Great design, but needs an additional engineer.
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