Author: Coté
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The Intel Opportunity
Massive demand, limited suppliers, huge barriers to entry. It’s a good time to be a manufacturing company. It is, potentially, a good time to be Intel. After all, of those four companies, the most advanced, by a significant margin, is Intel. The only problem is that Intel sees themselves as a design company, come hell…
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How would you define work in a networked world?
Most of these dynamics predate the internet, but digital technologies are magnifying their salience. People keep returning to the mantra of “work-life balance” as a model for thinking about their lives, even as it’s hard to distinguish between what constitutes work and what constitutes life, which is presumably non-work. But this binary makes little sense…
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That nasty tasting black stuff…that I’m drinking right now
The flavour might best be described as being a cross between medicine, crushed plants, and bitter mud. … The drink’s numerous medicinal claims came in handy during the American prohibition; as a medicine, Fernet Branca was still legal. –Fernet Branca
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99 Problems
Some things are beyond my control. For example, this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba – it’s unbelievable. I’ve got 99 problems and now Jay-Z is one. –The President
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Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
As IBM now cleverly says Mobile isn’t a Device, Its Data… We’re heading into a beautiful, bright, future where Data is Eating The World and solving tough problems… —Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
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How the kids learn about new stuff – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast
Check it out! Charles and I recorded an episode. In Video! Charles and I discuss DevOpsDays Austin, how programmers keep up with things now-a-days, and some detailed examples of the social parts of GitHub.
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DevOpsDays Austin
I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It’s always a fun, event, packed with plenty of old friends and folks to catch up. We gave away a Sputnik to a lucky winner, a fine fellow from Boston as I recall. Also, check out Barton’s video interview with Patrick Debois.
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7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin
Some take aways from Rob. More: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin
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The Truth About Pattern Matching
menswear techniques that sounds really important and next level, but, when you think about it, is really just a basic move you used to do all the time as a kid. —The Truth About Pattern Matching
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The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services
I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing AWS will continue. So too will the confusion about their inability to catch up with AWS, let alone pass them by. At the end of the day, this is about inventing new ways to provide better and more resilient computing…
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Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids
Buying IBM’s x86 server business is the quickest way for Lenovo to rocket up the rankings and become the number four server maker in the world, behind IBM and far behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The deal would make Lenovo the number three x86 server maker instantly. —Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids
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People will do more with Big Data than big companies can
The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got the power to do what only big enterprises could do previously — and to do a much better job of it. —People will do more with Big Data than big companies can
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Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica
Amazon Web Services (AWS), by way of comparison, is estimated to have brought in $1.8 billion last year. —Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica
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Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite
In other words, as with open source, these developers can’t be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. In an earlier Forrester survey, developers said the primary benefit of the cloud is that it’s the "Fastest way for me to get my project done and deployed." This calls to mind Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady’s assertion that "Convenience trumps…
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Exclusive: Bain, Golden Gate in the lead to buy BMC Software – sources
My old company… More: Exclusive: Bain, Golden Gate in the lead to buy BMC Software – sources
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Why it’s an endless churn
The endless search for an organizational handle on the market – that is, rational structures to deal with the irrational – coupled with managers’ ambitions and what I shall call their mobility panic, fuel a never-ending succession of personnel changes, marked by intense personal rivalries, in virtually all big corporations. —Moral Mazes This books keeps…
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In-N-Out Burger Coming To Austin: Austinist
{{{Better get a bucket}}} In-N-Out Burger has reportedly applied for a permit to build what would be its first Austin location near I-35 and Airport Boulevard. The west coast burger chain had already announced plans to open a store in Round Rock. —In-N-Out Burger Coming To Austin: Austinist
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Sputnik launches as the Dell XPS 13 Laptop
Today is an exciting day for me: Dell is launching a product that I’ve helped put together and create along with a team of people across the company and, of course, the leader of the project, Barton George. We’ve been calling it Project Sputnik, and it’s got a real name now, “XPS 13 developer edition.”…
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