Category Archives: Business

Post #100!

And to celebrate, we look at the differences between managers and humansprogrammers.

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Back in 1992, Robert X. Cringely wrote in Accidental Empires: How the boys of Silicon Valley make their billions, battle foreign competition, and still can’t get a date [Oxford comma sic]: Fifteen years from now, we [Americans] won’t be able … Continue reading

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The times, they mainly stay the same

bbum displays a graph of the market capitalization (he’s american, so the z sticks) of a few of the computer companies, noting that if after-hours trading isn’t too surprising, then tomorrow (for Americans, again) the market will open with Apple … Continue reading

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Apple and Google sitting in a tree, f-i-g-h…erm…t-i-ng

This really came out of a throwaway comment I made on Daniel, but it seems popular to pick apart every last iota of Steveness from the WWDC keynote, and I’m nothing if not popular. So here we go. What is … Continue reading

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