Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
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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: November 30-December 6, 2015
Summary of this week:
- Amazon shows a new drone delivery prototype
- Some secrets of National Security Letters revealed
- The Zuckerburgs have a baby girl
- and pledge to give away 99% of their wealth in their lifetime
- Apple makes Swift Open Source
Monday
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- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday November 30, 2015
Today used to be known as "Cyber Monday."
Amazon shows a new video of its drone delivery with Jeremy Clarkson narrating.
Great stuff. Look for this outside the US first because our FAA cannot
abide with such rapid innovation. Oh well, our government to our rescue.
We already have rumors of the next thinner MacBook Air for mid-2016.
Want people to brush their teeth? Put caffeine in the toothpaste.
Li-Fi experiments continue, but will it ever be practical?
A look at the ridiculous apartments of San Francisco. How much can you pay for so little in return?
The Breakthrough Energy Coalition launches with billion$. You know all the names behind this: Gates, Zuckerburg, Bezos, et al.
And now we have memeufacturing—combining celebrity, YouTube, cool stuff, and the army of factories in China.
This is called backwards compatibility: how to send a fax from your smartphone.
Adele has now sold 3.38million albums in a week. There's no bu$ine$$ like $how bu$ine$$.
"Boom times beget decadent behavior, and the only thing flowing more freely than startup funding right now is free food."
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Tuesday December 1, 2015
On the failure of Twitter and Facebook to allow online shopping that works.
Radical candor, feedback, creating a good environment for work, and being a good boss.
National Security Letters,
the surveillance state, and you can't talk about this because if you
say one word about nothing you go to jail. This type of thing is bad
for America perpetrated by those who love America but don't seem to
understand the result of their actions. More on the story here.
Why owning a home could be a bad idea: cash and liquidity are kings.
Microsoft launches PowerApps and hopes to make a billion $.
Peering into the future of swallowing robots to clean away disease from the inside of our bodies.
Want to be a freelance worker? Read a bit first.
Worldwide: 3.2billion persons online with 7billion mobile subscriptions.
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Wednesday December 2, 2015
Adobe to stop Flash Professional, the main authoring tool used to create Flash animations in January.
Remember the landline telephone? Half of America's homes don't have them.
Wikipedia has software that inspects edits and sends them to human reviewers if they seem odd.
The Zuckerburgs have a baby daughter and pledge to give away 99% of their wealth.
Some cautionary tales about giving away money from this source.
Amazon alone had 35% of Black Friday online sales.
Software developers are moving away from the Mac App store and selling directly for technical and economic reasons.
Joseph F. Engelberger, Father of Robotics died at age 90.
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Thursday December 3, 2015
If Yahoo decides to sell its Internet business, there is a long line of buyers waiting.
Spain has more deaths than births. Other European nations to follow.
YouTube is trying to bring programming from Hollywood to compete with Netflix et el.
Criticisms of the Zuckerburg wealth-giveaway pledge. He's giving the money to his wife's corporation. Charity?
Chrome version 47 is released.
Criticism of the Raspberryy Pi Zero as an educational tool.
PHP 7 is released.
Target is paying $40million to banks over its 2013 data breach. How about throwing some money my way for all the time I had to spend because of Target losing my credit card number?
Google releases its Cloud Vision API. At last. I did something like this 30 years ago as did several others.
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Friday December 4, 2015
Not much Internet viewing this morning.
Details on the Zuckerburg LLC that will receive all the Zuckerburg money (it's not a charity).
The Swift programming language—Apple—is not open source.
Strong rumors that Apple will sell a smaller, less expensive iPhone next year.
The Chromebooks are now half of all computers in school classrooms.
The wearable computer fitness thingy market grew 200% last year with FitBit beating everyone.
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Saturday December 5, 2015
Samsung pays Apple $548million in yet another patent dispute.
Drone flyover video of the growing Apple spaceship office complex.
IBM opens the Swift Sandbox website where you can type Swift code into the browser and run it.
Court rules that in a free country you can post your thoughts to the Internet. I think this is called Free Speech.
"These are the best photos of Pluto you’ll likely see in your lifetime"—good photos, sad but true headline.
Lack of qualified STEM applicants? Not really. Actaully 1/4 of applicants turned down because overqualified. I fall into the latter group.
Linux Mint 17.3 is released.
Can everyone learn to program a computer? Probably not, probably impossible for 1/3 of the population. Why should programming be any different from any other skill?
Mark Zuckerburg explains his "gift" to his wife's LLC.
Coming soon to a road near you: tractor trailers with Amazon logos.
With regards to money, it is nice to be Marissa Mayer—$25million severance package.
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Sunday December 6, 2015
Now anyone can use license plate reader technology. Oh what fun we can have.
How one employer brings coding boot camp graduates on the job and teaches them all over again.
Prepare yourself for a different banana at the grocery store as a disease is about to wipe out the one we've eatern for 50 years.
This is an excellent article on creating places that you go to write. Caution: once you finish building it, do there and write.
Writing and writing can reinforce bad habits. This is not the problem most writers find.
Want to be a writer. Write. Don't know what to write? Tell your own story.
Transforming you NaNoWriMo efforts into a "real" novel. I think 50,000 words is a real novel.
How simple illustrations help your book. I have done this. It isn't difficult to find good enough artists to do $100 illustrations.
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