Joel Kotkin lists the best and worst cities in the USA for doing business. Based on recent years' job growth/loss. Atlanta wins, NYC is 6th-worst (San Jose wins that category). San Bernadino Ca was 2nd-best - I spent a few days there in the 80s and it looked like the set of a Mad Max movie - mountains of slag and the air filled with pollution (which blows in from LA and gets trapped by the mountains - I can't imagine the asthma levels...).

Anyone living in the San Jose area should attend Friday's Blobject conversation between Karim Rashid and Hartmut Esslinger.

biggest city in Silicon Valley (more)

see Lawrence Lessig

Kor Ean-BBQ-Taco Food Truck in Los Angeles famous for using Twitter to let people know where it's working at the moment. (more)

WebApp RssAggregator - was the Lafayette Project (more)

KinJa has launched. MegNut is leaving in a month. Ad-supported. I was not invited to the launch party.

Federica Cherubini notes Popular Science, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Mic, The Week, Re Code, The Verge, and now The Daily Dot. What do they have in common? They all decided to kill their online comment sections. What seemed a light trend a few months ago is now growing into a more consistent wave. (Blog Comment) (more)

Tool for doing Basic Arithmetic and more. (more)

The Subversive story of the creation of the Graphing Calculator app for MacOS. I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up... Apple at that time had a strong tradition of SkunkWorks projects, in which engineers continued to work on canceled projects in hopes of producing demos that would inspire management to revive them... Once we had a plausible way to ship, Apple became the ideal work environment. Every engineer we knew was willing to help us. We got resources that would never have been available to us had we been on the payroll... Our recognition made life interesting in other ways since we could no longer remain a well kept secret. After a demo to outside developers, one person called Apple claiming that we infringed his Patent, causing a fire drill until I could show Prior Art. Another company, the makers of Mathematica, simply demanded that our product be pulled. Apple very politely declined. One week we were evading security, the next week Apple is rising to our defense... I view the events as an experiment in subverting power structures. I had none of the traditional power over others that is inherent to the structure of corporations and bureaucracies. I had neither budget nor headcount. I answered to no one, and no one had to do anything I asked. Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were Hacker-s, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work.

art that changes based on outside behavior (der that's the Interactive bit)

Good little interview with Cory Doctorow... (more)

Please edit system and help pages ONLY in the master wiki! (more)

aka LifeStreams (more)

Mike Fishbein: Where Start Up Ideas Come From ISBN:1500815896 (more)

School thinker. (more)

Configuration management (CM) is a Systems Engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.[1][2] The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage complex systems, such as weapon systems, vehicles, and information systems. Outside the military, the CM process is also used with IT service management as defined by ITIL, resp. ISO/IEC 20000, and with other domain models in the Civil Engineering and other Industrial Engineering segments such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings... CM is the practice of handling changes systematically so that a system maintains its integrity over time... Ideally the CM process is applied throughout the system Life Cycle... The traditional software configuration management (SCM) process is looked upon by practitioners as the best solution to handling changes in software projects... Configuration management can be used to maintain OS configuration files.[11] Example systems include Quattor, C F Engine, Bcfg2, Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant and Chef. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management (more)

Our UVerse service seems hinky the last couple days (more)

You Send It is a free File Sharing service. Really like EMail, but without attachments. (more)

One little "secret" of living in NYC is how nice the weekends are in the summer when so many people leave town. (more)