Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
Items
I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
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This
week: May 11-17, 2015
Summary of this week:
- The NFL suspends Tom Brady 4 games for cheating
- BB King dies at 89
- Verizon buys AOL
- New study debunks H-1B visas—yes, they hurt American job seekers
- WalMart to compete with Amazon Prime
- The Russian economy is collapsing—bad news for the rest of us
- Apple to sell 51million iPhone 6 units this quarter
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Monday May 11, 2015
No Internet viewing due to travel.
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Tuesday May 12, 2015
The
NFL suspends Tom Brady four games for cheating.
Facebook
is working on its own search engine.
Rumors
that Apple is about to do something startling in the auto industry.
Even
self-driving cars can be hit by other, no-so-attentive motorists. A
Google car ourfitted with all those gadgets can cause other drivers to
stare at it instead of where they should be staring.
Imposter's
Syndrome and other insecurities of professional programmers.
Verizon is buying America
OnLine $4.4billion.
Google
Maps has been hacked several times recently causing internal changes.
The
New York Times mobile app is now free to use instead of $8/month.
A reporter drives for Uber
and tell us all about it.
Young
adults today actually trust the cloud with their critical information.
Samsung's
business in China has flopped in the last year.
Utility companies are
energy-storage playing games with Internet-connected hot water heaters.
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Wednesday May 13, 2015
A new 10-core SoC from MediaTek.
MathCrunch: on-demand, mobile math tutoring (for a small fee).
Facebook debuts Instant Articles today so we won't have to leave Facebook to read them.
You couldn't do this in America: fly a jetpack over a major city (Dubai).
New study: H-1B workers don't increase employment (as claimed) and do lower wages (as denied).
Starbucks still has plenty of problems with its online customer accounts and gift cards.
Microsoft is buying unused dark fibers to connect its datacenters.
Datacenters replace steel mills in search of cheaper power.
Nepal has another earthquake, not just an aftershock.
The Wikimedia Foundation is sitting on $53million in cash. They aren't likely to close down any time soon.
A month with the Apple Watch, "…fitness, texting and paying for things and checking in at airports."
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Thursday May 14, 2015
The LED light bulbs are taking over the world.
Oh yes, that Apple Watch and others come with ads.
According to economic definition, Greece is back in a recession.
Someone buys the RadioShack brand for $26million.
Apple expands its factory in Ireland—maybe to make a car.
Mobile users in the US live in Facebook, Instagram, and messaging.
WalMart starts its own services to compete with Amazon Prime.
The big growth in music services is in India.
Hadoop is losing to Apache Spark in big data.
Does anyone still have an aol.com email address?
An early look at Facebook's new Instant Articles.
Facebook
pushes its vendors to treat their workers better. Notice how Facebook
isn't hiring these people. I doubt their sincerity.
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Friday May 15, 2015
BB King died at 89.
Little video camera drones are becoming much easier to fly—just toss this one up in the air.
Forgot the combination to your old Master lock? The 3D printed machine cracks any Master combo lock in 30 seconds.
Is the compute cloud the next PC, i.e., something that changes the world?
A look at the best, low-cost smartphones.
Raspberry Pi cuts the price of its older models to $25.
The Raspberry Pi 2 has already shipped a million units.
This guy goes to jail for telling people about the known faults in the polygraph machine.
He isn't teaching people how to blow up buildings. He is passing along
information that has been public for decades. I don't get it.
Google will up its bug-like self-driving cars on the real road this summer for testing.
The Russian economy is collapsing; this is a bad thing for the rest of us.
The iPhone 6 continues sell in large numbers—51million units (not dollars) this quarter.
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Saturday May 16, 2015
Trader Joe's joins the growing list of retailers accepting Apple Pay.
Penn State's College of Engineering is hacked by China—lots of personal information stolen.
A look at the top, current video cameras.
A look the top, current laptop computers. For those of us old folks who still use a laptop.
Google provides a guide for a person wanting to learn software development in and out of college.
Good old National Geographic reaches 1billion likes on Instagram.
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Sunday May 17, 2015
The rumors grow stronger that Apple is building an electric-powered car.
It seems that Harvard has been discriminating against Asian-American applicants.
Another person's experience with the Apple Watch.
Interesting thoughts on the sharing economy, the haves, and the growing group of servants. The mobile Internet makes it easier to be a servant. More servants means lower wages.
An odd story of an hacker who took control of a United Airlines flight that he was on.
Yes, teenagers can program computers at alarming rates. See, e.g., Silicon Valley.
A look at the current screencasting tools that work in OS X.
Yet another study showing that technology shortens our span of attention.
This is an excellent post about how different writers, in this case a husband and wife, write using different methods.
How writing in a noisy coffee shop can improve your writing.
Notes on how travel can improve your writing.
Writers and insecurity.
It is a real ailment. Many "writers" wouldn't write this sentence and
put it on the Internet as they are afraid of something out there.
Some ideas on writing for other than the dreaded content mills.
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