June 2012
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Speaking of "Project Marklar"... →
Kim Scheinberg once again on Quora discussing the codename of the project to port OS X to Intel:
Yes, it’s the South Park reference.
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How "Project Marklar" (AKA The Move To Port OS X... →
Amazing Quora response the question: “How does Apple keep secrets so well?“
Kim Scheinberg (the wife of long-time Apple engineer John Kullmann):
No one has ever reported that, for 18 months, Project Marklar existed only because a self-demoted engineer wanted his son Max to be able to live closer to Max’s grandparents.
(via Tom Cook)
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A Decent Thing That Someone Would Like →
A couple days ago, John Gruber and I recorded an episode of The Talk Show. It’s a pretty great 90-minute conversation about the Android ecosystem, potential Windows 8 problems, Facebook’s IPO, and, of course, next week’s WWDC.
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Do Users Care About Android's Embarrassing Lack Of... →
Danny Sullivan makes several good points about the average end user not caring so much about Google’s inability to get carriers/OEMs to push the latest Android updates. But it’s about more than just the obvious “people are still buying a lot of Android devices” aspect of the argument.
When the ecosystem is so fragmented, developers have a hard time doing their best work...
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Larry And Sergey To Chat With Antitrust... →
Sara Forden for Bloomberg:
Plans for the depositions come as the Federal Trade Commission speeds up its antitrust probe of operator of the world’s most popular Internet search engine. Jon Leibowitz, the agency’s chairman, said June 6 that he expects to complete the investigation by the end of the year. The FTC will then decide whether to sue Google.
As I said earlier, this is going to be the...
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8. Pussy
cnet:
The top 25 most common passwords:
password
123456
12345678
1234
qwerty
12345
dragon
pussy
baseball
football
letmein
monkey
696969
abc123
mustang
michael
shadow
master
jennifer
111111
2000
jordan
superman
harley
1234567
Why do you think 1234567 is so much less popular than 123456 and 12345678?
The human race is 1. stupid 2. perverted 3. into sports 4. weird.
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50 Shades Of Grey →
An interesting, and ultimately I think pretty good, response from Google to an op-ed from the CEO of comparison shopping engine Nextag declaring Google a monopolist abusing its power.
Effectively, what SVP Amit Singhal is saying over and over again is: if you don’t like what we’re doing, go somewhere else. Almost the entire response is about Google’s competitors — they even...
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