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I’m not Mr. Bott’s biggest fan in the world, but he really nails it perfectly in this article. Why in the world would you listen to anyone with the track-record of Gartner, or any other analyst firm for that matter?

Go read the examples, it’s enough to light your hair on fire just from reading it.

Jul 23, 20121 note

#Ed Bott #analysts #nonsense #idiots #clowns #jokers #nincompoops #Gartner #silly #analysis

onethingwell:

If you have more than one Mac running OS X Lion and you’re signed in to the same iCloud account on all of them, you can SSH between them via iCloud’s IPv6 network.

First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running
dns-sd -E 
Then SSH to another machine like so
ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com 
That’s hard to remember and a hassle to type, so might want to add something like the following to your ~/.ssh/config:
Host mac-remote User username HostName computername.123456789.members.btmm.icloud.com AddressFamily inet6 Protocol 2 
Which means you can just type
ssh mac-remote 
to log in to your other Mac when you’re out and about.

Very handy.

Jul 23, 2012158 notes

#ssh #osx #icloud

Jul 17, 201221 notes

“Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved.” —Osho (via awakeinthedream)

Jul 17, 201269 notes

Seems obvious once you know how it’s done

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Jul 16, 20121,288 notes

“The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet. Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to use for any purpose, wherever they are in the world.” —

Free access to British scientific research to be available within two years | Science | The Guardian (via misantropo)

Get your shit together America. This is a sound way into scientific literacy.

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Hot damn, you go UK.

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Jul 16, 2012286 notes

wilwheaton:

This week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. On its own, such a vote would be unremarkable. Republicans control the House, they oppose President Obama’s health reform law, and so they voted to get rid of it.

But here’s the punchline: This was the 33^rd time they voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Holding that vote once makes sense. Republicans had promised that much during the 2010 campaign. But 33 times? If doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result makes you insane, what does doing the same thing 33 times and expecting a different result make you?

Well, it makes you the 112^th Congress.

Hating on Congress is a beloved American tradition. Hence Mark Twain’s old joke, “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” But the 112^th Congress is no ordinary congress. It’s a very bad, no good, terrible Congress. It is, in fact, one of the very worst congresses we have ever had.

Ezra nails this one perfectly. The 112th Congress is a miserable failure, and 98% of Americans are suffering needlessly because of it.

Jul 16, 20121,148 notes

Play

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#Politics

pastimperfection:

Speaking of Just Not Okay: You know what comedians in this country don’t usually do? They don’t make 9/11 jokes. (Or, at least, they are extremely careful when they try to be funny about 9/11.) This isn’t because comedians feel very deeply about 9/11, even though many of…

Jul 16, 201213 notes

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Jul 13, 201238 notes

#oman #upstream filtering #content blocking #privacy #internet #internet privacy #middle east #india

wilwheaton:

Yes, Conservative Rubes, if America just gives the 2% ruling class everything they want to be even richer at the expense of everything the remaining 98% of Americans need to survive, the 2% ruling class will magically — contrary to decades of data — give you a job that finally pays you a living wage. Honest. They pinky swear for reals this time.

But until then, keep blaming Obama for the shitty economy because of reasons.

Jul 10, 2012921 notes

“Suppose you are in a unit with 10 other people. Your boss thinks every one of you is spectacular. Well it doesn’t matter because at Microsoft, you have to designate two of them as spectacular, four of them as mediocre, and then the rest as terrible. What you’ve done is create a system where every employee is not only trying to do their best, but every employee is trying to make sure that their colleagues don’t. Creating that environment is the exact opposite of what you want to do in terms of encouraging innovation.” —

The downfall of innovation at Microsoft | Marketplace.org

I first learned about Microsoft’s practice of “stack racking” within teams about five years ago. Ever since then, the company’s fortunes have made a lot more sense to me.

And, not in a good way.

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