August 2011
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“What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an...”
– This is totally amazing.
GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann in a radio interview, stating that Americans are worried about the rise of the Soviet Union, which ceased to exist 20 years ago. (via officialssay)
scary
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“Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers essentially...”
– Managing Software Engineers Amen, brother. I think about this every time I leave my (nice) apartment for my (not nice) office. (via timoni)
Big DIY: The Year the Maker Movement Broke
Adafruit’s Torrone predicts that any or all of the following may happen in the next year or so:
We’ll see more large companies embrace the maker movement, [through] acquisitions, sponsorships. More companies / tool makers [will] compete to get makers interested. (IBM really adopted open source; it will be a little like that.)
We will see a publicly held maker company.
We will see more VC money...
“Dear Mr. Slavin,
I am a TED translator and now translating your talk. There is...”
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Sent to me via Facebook by a very nice guy who is not from a city with a lot of jewish delicatessens. (via slavin)
