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Jan 17

Amazon's Cloud Search

This has the potential to be massive. And make no mistake, it’s a shot right at Google, just from the other direction. What if the future of search isn’t web search, but data search (which includes web and native apps).

The Amazon/Google rivalry is quickly shaping up to be more intense than the Apple/Google rivalry.

Good scoop by Sarah Lacy. Undoubtedly the first of many.

This is an interesting move. It seems like there are a lot of options out there to store data, but not a lot of options to do interesting things with that data in an easy fashion. Maybe Amazon’s Cloud Search will be a step in this direction.

Jan 12

“There is no ‘healthiest’ meal. You can spend all day preparing the healthiest meal you can imagine but it does no good unless it’s in your stomach. Code quality is important, but it’s nothing unless you ship it.” Jesse Stromier, The Hungry Programmer

Jan 6

Sunset over the dump by my office (Taken with Instagram at Cobasys)

Plans from 1908 for a Pyramid in downtown Detroit

An interesting article about Detroit surfaced during D3’s hours laboring through old academic texts. On 1908, an engineer mused about the requirements to build a complete, full-scale replica of the Giza’s Great Pyramid in Detroit.

Could we get a Kickstarter project going for this?

Jan 3

“I say “it made me” but I made it, too. You get the power by using it. Nobody confers it on you.” Zeldman, The maker makes: on design, community and personal empowerment

Dec 21

“So why invent police? What are they for? In “The Institutional Revolution,” the economic historian Douglas W. Allen theorizes that their purpose was to preserve manufactured goods from theft. Before the nineteenth century, Allen writes, theft was easy to detect. If your transport was a horse, you could recognize it. (For that matter, it could recognize you.) Not only was your coat hand sewn, but a tailor looking at its fabric could probably tell who had woven it. If any of these items were stolen, they were easy to reclaim if they could be found. With the advent of the industrial revolution, handmade goods gave way to standardized commodities, which all look alike, and it ceased to be possible to know an object’s provenance just by looking at it. The phrase “possession is nine-tenths of the law” came into vogue, and it was made illegal to hold stolen goods. After all, once goods became untraceable, they were all too easy to fence.” Caleb Crain, iPhones vs. the Police

Dec 20

“.. the new home screen finally allows users to customize the contents of the dock (a feature that wasn’t previously available).”

From Ars Technica’s review of Ice Cream Sandwich

Why was this not available in an earlier version of Android?

Nov 27