technology
Will Faught
August 2016
Why Some Diversity Thinkers Aren’t Buying Tech Industry’s ‘Pipeline’ Excuses
“Diversity thinkers”? Who comes up with that terminology? The pipeline is a valid argument because that’s exactly what’s happening. Anyone who disagrees ought to first take a look in the mirror: have you ever bought your kid a gender-specific toy? A doll for a girl? An action figure for a boy? Because if so, that’s the problem right there. The problem is you. The problem is social. The problem is parents holding their girls back by only giving them “girly” things.
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CEO Marissa Mayer Treated Yahoo Like A Think Tank, Not A Sinking Ship
I can’t decide who comes out of this looking worse: Mayer, who did nothing substantial, or the board that paid her a bonus for it.
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May 2013
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison To PlayStation 4
An excellent Xbox One hardware and software analysis by Anand Lal Shimpi: We’re still talking about over 5x the peak theoretical shader performance of the Xbox 360, likely even more given increases in efficiency thanks to AMD’s scalar GCN architecture (MS quotes up to 8x better GPU performance) - but there’s no escaping the fact that Microsoft has given the Xbox One less GPU hardware than Sony gave the PlayStation 4.
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March 2013
John Gruber: Where others offer choices, Apple makes decisions. What some of us appreciate is what so rankles the others — that those decisions have so often and consistently been right.
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October 2012
Marco Arment: Personally, I’ve stopped buying extended warranties on almost everything, with the rationale that if I ever actually need to repair something out of warranty and it costs me a much larger amount of money than I would have been spending on extended warranties, I’ll start buying them from that point forward. Makes sense to me.
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The Name Of The New Small IPad
The name of the current big iPad suggests that the name of the new small iPad, rumored to be unveiled tomorrow, will be just iPad, not iPad Nano, iPad Air, iPad Mini, or iPad Junior. If Apple had named “the new iPad” iPad 3, then the new small iPad would have to be named something like iPad Something, iPad 3 Something, or iPad 4 to differentiate it; but they didn’t. What seems more probable is that Apple will adopt the naming convention of some of their other products, namely iPod, iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, in which a family of related products all share the same name and are differentiated by a simple yet obvious characteristic like storage capacity or screen size: iPod touch 32/64 GB, iMac 24/27", MacBook Air 11/13", and MacBook Pro 13/15".
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Good lord: Password Length Minimum of 8 characters Maximum length of 40 characters What It Must Contain It must contain at least one character from three of the following lists: Uppercase Alphabetic (A-Z) Numbers (0-9) Lower case Alphabetic (a-z) These Special Characters are allowed: ! $ % & , ( ) - + - . / ; : < = > ? [ \ ] ^ _ { | } ~
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How To Download All ITunes Match Music Onto An IPhone With IOS 6
There’s no easy and obvious way that I could find to download all the songs in iTunes Match (previously purchased, matched, and uploaded) onto an iPhone with iOS 6. (The iTunes app can download only previously purchased songs. This may also apply to iPads.) The way to do it is to create a playlist of all your music, then scroll to the bottom and tap the download button. Simple, but not discoverable.
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