Hardware Hacking, BI Reporting Tool, Book Recommendations, and Winning the Futurist Lottery
by Nat Torkington
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| 20 July 2010
- Dangerous Prototypes -- "a new open source hardware project every month". Sample project: Flash Destroyer, which writes and verifies EEPROM chips until they blow out.
- Wabit -- GPLv3 reporting tool.
- Because No Respectable MBA Programme Would Admit Me (Mike Shaver) -- excellent book recommendations.
- The Most Prescient Footnote Ever (David Pennock) -- In footnote 14 of Chapter 5 (p. 228) of Graham’s classic Hackers and Painters, published in 2004, Graham asks “If the the Mac was so great why did it lose?”. His explanation ends with this caveat, in parentheses: "And it hasn’t lost yet. If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble."
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