Author Archives: Matt

Obsolete Occupations

Matt | Published: March 6, 2010
NPR features The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct.
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The Marionette Collective

Matt | Published: February 14, 2010
A friend recently pointed me at a project called mcollective. The Marionette Collective aka. mcollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. An introduction to mcollective is on the projects wiki page. We’ve attempted to think out of the box a bit designing this system by not relying on central inventories [...]
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Microsoft Operating Profit By Division

Matt | Published: February 10, 2010
CHART OF THE DAY via Business Insider – Silicon Alley Insider. …Its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)
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Apple iPad

Matt | Published: January 29, 2010
The first thing I thought about after seeing the new Apple iPad is what a great interface it could be for music creation. It’s large enough that it could be a perfect virtual mixing board, drum machine or remote control over MIDI/OSC. I could see a Apple producing an iPad Logic application to allow for [...]
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Uncrate’s Nexus One Review

Matt | Published: January 14, 2010
Uncrate’s review of Nexus One – via Daring Fireball Just when you thought you were all ready to plunk down your holiday gift cards toward a new iPhone, Google comes out of a left field with a scrappy alternative. This is my favorite review so far, if you can even call it that.
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