Great post-mortem on Google Glass by Tim @Bajarin. I wouldn’t blame just price though; the concept was bad too. techpinions.com/the-debacle-of…
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People freaked out when a tiny gyrocopter flew nea…
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People freaked out when a tiny gyrocopter flew near the Mall, and now they are OK with 70-year-old WARPLANES there? networkworld.com/article/292033…
It appears that the Open Smart Grid Protocol viola…
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It appears that the Open Smart Grid Protocol violated the first rule of cryptography: don’t invent your own. threatpost.com/weak-homegrown…
US businesses have $1.73 Trillion in cash globally…
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US businesses have $1.73 Trillion in cash globally. More than 1 out of every 10 of those dollars belong to $AAPL forbes.com/sites/laurenge…
I might have had a shot at looking like Derek Jaco…
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I might have had a shot at looking like Derek Jacobi, but he still has better hair. And he dies.
Saw Disney’s Cinderella last night. Still trying t…
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Saw Disney’s Cinderella last night. Still trying to contain my disappointment that I’ll never look like Lily James or be a Disney princess.
On the other hand, the three people who understood…
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On the other hand, the three people who understood it probably all went, “Really?”
I’m sure my last tweet was probably one of my most…
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I’m sure my last tweet was probably one of my most obscure ever.
I discovered today that SparkR as distributed is n…
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I discovered today that SparkR as distributed is not compiled for YARN-client operation under Cloudera out of the box. #bigdatasigh
Today is the official holiday for Star Wars alcoho…
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Today is the official holiday for Star Wars alcoholics: may the fifth be with you.