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Monthly Archives: April 2010
In Memory of Itanium
Microsoft announced a change in our relationship with Itanium, aka IA64 today. I remember the excitement of the new platform back in 1999 as we were working on it. I remember late nights in a lab in building 1 helping out as a sort of translator with the Japanese NEC engineers. It was a heady …
iP* devices versus Open Source
Cory Doctrow wrote a great post on Boing Boing on why he won’t buy an iPad. I think it’s an interesting argument – this point really resonated with me: Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way …