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. I encourage you to see Jerry Pournelle's site and subscribe to his services.

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This week: September 12-18, 2016

Summary of this week:

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

Monday September 12, 2016

HP is buying Samsung's printer business for $1Billion.

The move from Service Oriented Architecture to Micro Services. And the blah blah blah goes on.

Age discrimination is alive in well in the tech industry. Some go to goofy lengths to "appear younger."

Lots of mixed thoughts on this story about Microsoft hiring autistic programmers. In the past, we didn't label so much.

The Raspberry Pi starter kit that cost 3x more than the Raspberry Pi. Losing focus here.

Apple and the wireless headphones. I am way ahead of them. Mine are called hearing aids.

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Tuesday September 13, 2016

Coming next week, Twitter stops counting all the other stuff in the 140-character limit.

We now have thousands of GPUs running SQL queries. Go to BlazingDB.

Larry Page's insistence on higher quality has slowed Google's progress in self-driving cars. Let's see who wins the long race.

Those Billion$ Apple paid in European taxes greatly reduces what it will pay in US taxes.

Microsoft to start paying us to use the Edge browser.

The trail of money, Harvard, the American Medical Assoc, sugar, and heart disease. But I thought Harvard was above reproach?

MIT researchers use terahertz technology to read books without opening them.

August 2016 was the hottest month in the history of our planet. We will all fry before Christmas.

Tie a string around your AirPods so you don't lose them.

The guys who told us that the VW diesel was clean and efficient now tell us the Chevy Volt will go 200+ miles.

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Wednesday September 14, 2016

Photos from Google-Chipotle burrito drone delivery. It is all on a sterile test range. Just a PR trick.

Nvidia updates its neural network inferencing cards.

AMD is growing its share in the market for discrete graphics cards, but Nvidia still dominates.

Passwords, leaks, passwords, sales, passwords, trouble, passwords, passwords, passwords. Take Care.

Some Russians hack the World Anti-Doping Agency and release drug tests for lots of famous persons. Is everyone ready for national electronic health records? Why don't the Russians hack Clinton's and Trump's health records for the rest of us?

This little single-board computer is the brain of Nvidia's self-driving car program.

iOS 10 is ready to download.

In come the robots; out go the jobs. We have yet to find what these unemployed persons will do.

The iPhone 7 is a big seller as it breaks records in pre-sales. How do you sell something prior to selling it?

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Thursday September 15, 2016

Uber self-driving cars in Pittsburgh: basically another test range exercise. Nothing to see yet.

Google releases the Angular 2.0 web application framework.

Tim Cook understands that augmented reality is far more useful and practical than VR. At least one person agrees with me.

Never underestimate what some people think is "funny." Facebook learns if you let people post news, people will post April Fool's "jokes."

Accidental co-occurrences boost Apple's stock price to a new high.  iPhone 7 soars while Samsung 7 burns.

GitHub adds features for team reviews. Hence, it is growing up.

WiFi kiosks in New York allow people to browse. That, unfortunately, is what they did.

The iPhone 7 is selling like new iPhones usually sell. F A S T !

"Professionals have standards. Professionals push back."–Seth Godin. I agree.

Microsoft beats Facebook in the number of employees contributing to open source software projects. The world has turned upside down.

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Friday September 16, 2016

Not quite on time, but Samsung officially recalls their burning phone in the US.

The trailer for the next "Fifty Shades" installment sets some kind of world record.

Oracle and Amazon are in a price war in the cloud services market. The consumer wins—at least in the short term.

Today is the day we will see people walking the streets with earpods or whatever in their ears or on the ground.

Who owns childhood photos of you? You, or your parents? Let the judge decide.

Someone sums the economic worth of religious groups in the US.

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Saturday September 17, 2016

Did Apple really get this wrong? Iphone 7 home button won't work if you're wearing gloves.

Everyone is putting their iPhone 7 in a glass of water, and the phones seem to work.

Government IT: Oakland Police Dept deletes 25% of body cam recordings and has no backups.

Sometimes all this AI software goes awry as Google Street View blurs a cow's face for privacy.

Oliver Stone makes another movie based on a true story. Please consider the "based" word when watching.

Thoughts on evaluating someone's algorithm. Does it work?

Excellent infographic on the bot ecosystem.

How to get 15million frequent flyer miles on United. It isn't easy. White-hat hacker does it.

Microsoft's speech recognition software inches ahead of IBM's.

Microsoft closes its Skype London office; 400 jobs are lost.

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Sunday September 18, 2016

Clever, The Most Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, it erases what you wrote. Makes you go and go and go. Good for drafting mode.

Our U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed "The Ham Radio Parity Act." Up  go previously outlawed antennas.

Need processing power in a portable (not laptop) computer? Look at these.

$1,800 a month gets us luxury co-living spaces worldwide. Yes, another solution for a non-existent problem.

Got an extra $20,000? Get LG's 77-inch OLED TV.

Chromebooks powered by Android are here. Is Chrome OS going away?

The folly and just plain stupidity of many so-called background checks.

Everyone (who didn't pay for the thing) is dropping and drowning the iPhone 7 to see if it works.

A look at using Kickstarter to fund a book. This works mostly for non-fiction and history.

One writer's method for writing that book.

Insight for authors: how libraries choose which books the have and which they trash.

Thoughts on setting three kinds of time-based goals for writing.

Some blog post ideas.

Here's a nice infographic on a "best selling" book.

"You can crawl into bed, pull the covers over your head, and wail that everyone is just jealous of your talents and it isn’t fair. Or you can face the fact that you are here to learn, and the first lesson was a tough one to swallow." We all have the choice almost everyday. Other people are stupid; other people are trying to teach me something. What do I choose?

This post is about the power of time. We do have time. It isn't guaranteed, but it is pretty sure to come.

The use of a novel journal to attempt to keep holes out of your writing.

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