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the foundation story for Apple’s iconic marketing campaign to sell Macs into universities and colleges ~ “Wheels For The Mind”

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

@digish777 @Brutu24 there is no “Indian culture”.. every state has its own culture

@Brutu24 Hard to trust Kerala is part of India. Culture is totally different.

Wow.. These Ladies rocked 🤍❤️‍🔥 A small tribute to Michael Jackson His Music, Keralites Movement

@stevesi this… “It presumes people were not already busy.”.. the action items seem to increase at an exponential rate

Every time I read this about meetings I think people have a very "I'm the boss" view of meetings. Meetings are so much less about decisions and so much more about reaching a shared understanding of why, what, how things happen. Meetings create context for work. Summaries and recordings don't do that. My experience has been the worst meetings are the ones where "we must decide X" or "we have 27 follow up work items." Why? Almost nothing can actually get decided in a meeting. There's always more. More options. More time. More to learn. A meeting with many follow up literally slows down work. It presumes people were not already busy. People who leave a meeting with more to do are demoralized and less efficient. Meetings should not create homework. A meeting is when people share what is going on and get aligned on what others adjacent are doing. Meetings are about the seams between teams working on the same goal. They aren't about the boss deciding or informing the boss. Or the boss assigning homework. Everyone already knows the work. What they don't know is if the seams are coming together or falling apart. That's what alignment is. That's what working at scale requires. There are a million reasons why recordings and transcripts of meetings turn meetings into something they are not. They become the "Sent Mail" or worse. A way for people to dig through history to assign blame, shift accountability, or justify poor choices. They don't provide a useful tool to reach the harmony of collaboration. They take up time. They force a gamesmanship just like any other digital performance does as people seek to make (or avoid) the highlights reel. They drive attention away ("will watch later") and center the meeting on the boss (as Zoom does in general) and not peers. There is a dream, especially amongst engineers, that meetings are unnecessary at best and that people "just know" what to do. The "lone" builder pursuing goodness. A Howard Roark. That only works if you're Gilfoyle at a 5 person effort. Working at scale is not a solo project and requires communication and alignment. Talking in person is the best way to do that in terms of overhead, efficiency, and effectiveness. Even with Zoom, Slack, Github, and more. A post on "Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency" medium.learningbyshipping.com/reaching-peak-…

@sabeer the threat of the ED investigation suffices

Raghav Chadha’s switcheroo gives me the uneasy feeling that every politician in India might just be up for sale.

@IAmPoliticsGirl Trump is too heavy.. the SS can’t carry him anywhere

I think I'm done being played.

@VideosVuvu now.. that was a proper Mexican standoff

A deadly Black Mamba is snatched mid-air by a Snake Eagle… but the hunter becomes the hunted as the snake twists free and locks onto the eagle’s talons in a brutal struggle. Before either can escape, lions arrive on the scene, turning the chaos into a full-scale battle-leaving the trapped eagle with almost no chance of breaking free. #videosvuvu

There are many anecdotes from the first IBM mainframes used for business specifically accounting. The general rules of thumb were leasing a 1401 cost $2500/month and replaced 10 manual bookkeepers costing about $5000/month. So the first opinions were all about replacing labor with cheaper and tireless computers. Low-tech clerks and data punch operators were in fact replaced by the computer labor in these instances. The only problem was the computers ended up creating an insatiable demand for a new kind of work in financial analysis, forecasting, planning, and more. These were a new kind of job with new skills no one really had yet. Even mundane auditing became a new higher skilled job. So very quickly that cost savings was replaced by an insatiable demand for new uses of that same data. And those uses required even more compute resources and spend. While the cost savings turned into cost additions, business soon was delivering way more by way of services, profitability, speed, decision making, and predictability. What we do with computers in the workplace today—as smart as we think it is—will be viewed as "mechanical counting" in 20 years compared to what workers will be doing with AI. Yep, Excel will be looked at like a punch card. Ouch. More about what the 1401 replaced here. computerhistory.org/blog/about-the…

@suhailmaddie @dieworkwear “regiment ties”.. originally from the British military to identify soldiers off field and their units

@dieworkwear I love those ties - what are they called and are they in trend now?

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

@abierkhatib we always need a boogie man

This is going to have Zionists and Emiratis big mad, lol. “The Muslim Brotherhood has never carried out a terrorist attack on Americans.” Tucker: “Huh 😱”

@ValleyStacker @MbarkCherguia Freedom is coming your way

@MbarkCherguia USA just entered the chat 😂

You're digging in your backyard and this happens. What do you do?

@sabeer that’s a fancy dinner jacket 👌🏽

Italian dinner night at Havovi and Persi’s home..

@gitlab always existed.. and runs on Postgres.. time to get your head out of the monoculture infrastructure #postgres #github #hybridtechnology

@TraceeM @willchamberlain @mehdirhasan this ballroom will include a nuclear proofed aerodrome with that Qatari 747.. next, we need a runway to and from the WH EW ballroom.. yeah, sounds nuts

@willchamberlain @mehdirhasan My dude unless they’re hermetically sealing him into a ballroom that won’t be built until after his term is up and he never leaves, nor does any other President ever then there is zero need for this room to exist.

I feel like I’m losing my mind. This can’t be real. Is this real? Is it a movie? A dream? They’re all just obsessed… with straight faces.. about… a fucking ballroom?

His name was V Rajaraman. Born in 1933 in Erode, Tamil Nadu. Most Indians have never heard his name. Every Indian IT professional owes their career to him. He studied physics at St Stephens College Delhi, then engineering at IISc Bangalore. Won a government scholarship to MIT. Got his PhD in 1961. The world wanted him. He came back. In 1963, a massive IBM 1620 computer arrived at IIT Kanpur. It was so large they had to break down a wall to bring it inside. It came on a bullock cart. Rajaraman stood next to it and asked one question nobody else was asking. What if India taught this as a subject. In 1965, he launched India’s first Computer Science academic programme at IIT Kanpur. His first batch had 20 students. One of them was Narayana Murthy, who went on to build Infosys. He designed the MCA programme that opened IT careers to an entire generation of Indian graduates. He chaired the committee that created C DAC to build India’s first indigenous supercomputers. He authored 23 textbooks. Guided 30 PhD students. Won the Padma Bhushan in 1998. He passed away on November 8, 2025. Aged 92. India’s IT industry is worth 250 billion dollars today. He built the classroom it started in. Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

@DhruvPhirke @AbhinavAgarwal to the average consumer.. Godrej is the name that counts

@thinkx @AbhinavAgarwal Godrej Enterprises Group (GEG): Led by Jamshyd Godrej. This covers Godrej and Boyce, including its Appliances, Aerospace, and Security divisions. Calling "Industries" irrelevant is a fundamental misunderstanding of this legal restructuring.

On top is Godrej's old logo. Since 1897. Recognized across India. At the bottom is the new, redesigned logo, designed by Disco, Godrej’s in-house design studio. The second image is the logo for Guerrilla Holdings, an Australian company. If incompetence ever needed a logo.

@__apf__ this is my shocked face 😳

Hooray I got my stuff back ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@theo @GergelyOrosz @Marriott has their game on.. try out their new acquisition @citizenM for a fresh GenZ digital experience

@GergelyOrosz The incompetence is truly astounding. Never experienced anything like it. Took 2 days to figure out my keys and I still had to get them swapped again twice after.

What is going on inside the tech dep't at Hyatt. Saw @theo complain about how garbage Hyatt is when it comes to technology: 3/4 room keys did not work. I now tried to reset my password. The password reset email cannot be used to reset: the link got stripped out! Vibe coding?

@__apf__ I was starting to wonder how SmallTalk got into this conversation 😭

people who are not from smalltalk cultures don't know how to get out of it. the French man in front of me at hotel checkout is trapped in a ceaseless story about the innkeeper's son in Spain. his eyes beg for release but he doesn't know how to escape

TigerFS started as a simple idea: a filesystem backed by Postgres. Over past several weeks, I’ve been pushing that idea further with history logs and arbitrary undo. Not only to named snapshots, but rolling back to any point in time. Across the full workspace, a single file, or even selectively undoing the changes made by a specific agent. It effectively creates a safe "undo" layer for agents. You don’t have to trust them to clean up after themselves, or pollute your git history with lots of unnecessary commits. One fun part was building a stress tester that runs pseudo-random filesystem operations in a loop. Simple, but very good at surfacing edge cases.