Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to turn back on the love-pipes, I guess. The point being: it’s hard to figure out how to rate a company, esp. on short-term financials.
Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) - people tell me that Lync now is great, and I hope it is.
Meetings are where I go to find out what kind of work I should have been doing while I was at the meeting.
Back to Work: 195: Prima Facie Butter Coffee
http://overca.st/BZhSUqJc
A few weeks ago, I gave one of my occasional lectures at the University of Sydney, a class on the history of virtual reality and art. (Postmodern theories about disembodiment and self-representation from the 90s have found a new lease on life, thanks to Oculus and Google Cardboard.)
So that’s what the kids are learning about down under.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/12/the_last_pc_replacement_cycle_is_about_to_start_turning/
Coté Memo #053: there's a lot of earth for software to eat, day 1 of #CAWorld
Follow-up It’s been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at the OpenStack Summit. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile) - there’s a thought-technology battle going on to convince people that podcasts are a viable advertising medium. Sounds good to me. SquareSpace, right?
Coté Memo #053: There's a lot of earth for software to eat
Follow-upIt's been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at the OpenStack Summit.
Tech & Work WorldQuick HitsWhy Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile) - there's a thought-technology battle going on to convince people that podcasts are a viable advertising medium. Sounds good to me. SquareSpace, right?
Dell World 2014: No to Wall St, Yes to Cash - I missed DellWorld this year for this first time in 3 years, tragic.
And all of it, Nadella maintained, is part of a product focus which is less far-flung than it might look. When considering Microsoft’s products, “I just think about three things,” he said. “There’s Windows, there is Office 365, and there is [cloud platform] Azure. That’s it. Everything else, to me, you can call them features.”
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Wants To Make Productivity Sexy, Inspiring, And Futuristic
What they will not do is maintain steady eye contact or smile. If a stranger of the opposite sex smiles at you, it’s best to do as the French do and return only a blank look before turning away. If you smile back, you might find yourself in a Pepé Le Pew–type situation.
You can tell an Ingress user because (a.) they all are looking at their phones, and, (b.) they look like people who go to barcamps.
Fading City: 12: Episode Twelve http://overca.st/B8J0MHrMI
Coté Memo #052: Two types of clouds and headless doctors
Follow-up Hey there! It’s been awhile. I warned you, things are monkey-balls over here. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Nancy Gohring summarizes OpenStack vendor sports of late - an excellent, concise overview of the OpenStack movements of late. Nancy is one of the best tech reporters out there working on cloud. I’m glad she’s over on thenewstack.io too.
Double Whammy: IBM Sheds Chip Unit As Financial Woes Hit Hard - Power lives on.
docker has a straightforward CLI that allows you to do almost everything you could want to a container. All of these commands use the image id (ex. be29975e0098), the image name (ex. myusername/webapp) and the container id (ex. 72d468f455ea) interchangably depending on the operation you are trying to do. This is confusing at first, so pay special attention to what you’re using.
That paragraph switches around pretty quick there. “You followin’ me, camera guy?!” My OODA loop just got chaffed up.