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What is Spectrum, or Charter Spectrum?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 08 May 2017 11:00:30 +0000

What is Spectrum? Charter Spectrum, or simply Spectrum, is a new name to many parts of the country. Spectrum is the brand name for cable, Internet and phone service from Charter Communications. Although Charter started using the Spectrum name prior

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Take a peek at Bill Gates’ pre-Microsoft resume

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:24:13 +0000

Bill Gates and Paul Allen posed for a re-creation of a famous early Microsoft photograph this week; at the same event, Gates’ pre-Microsoft resume surfaced. I wouldn’t call any of this earth-shattering, but it’s interesting to see these relics of

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A snapshot in history of Gates and Microsoft, 1992

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:33:04 +0000

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire is a 1992 autobiography of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. It’s old. But it’s a compelling snapshot of what the industry thought of Gates and Microsoft before Windows 95, before

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It’s not even out yet and Paul Allen’s book has a mistake

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:56:18 +0000

If I were Paul Allen, I wouldn’t be very happy right now. Here’s why. Take a close look at the book cover, which I ran obnoxiously large for a reason. See the error? Take a look above his left shoulder.

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Reactions to Allen’s memoir. And my reactions to them.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:47:31 +0000

I hate April Fool’s Day. So nobody thinks this is an April Fool’s joke, I’ll just write more about what I wrote about yesterday, concentrating on media reactions to Paul Allen’s memoir. Then, tomorrow, I’ll revisit a very serious, important

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Paul Allen’s tearing into Gates seems familiar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:02:23 +0000

You’ve probably heard by now about Vanity Fair publishing an excerpt from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s autobiography, which doesn’t give the most flattering portrayal of Bill Gates, his former business partner. I’ve heard most of these stories before, though I’m

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Why small business is better than big business

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:24:21 +0000

Technophilosopher Paul Graham (whose essay on Bayesian filtering spurred the development of one of the more popular methods for blocking spam) has some thoughts on what companies ought to learn from open source and blogging.

I really liked this quote: [Those who] run Windows on servers ought to be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google and Yahoo don't know. I know Google and Yahoo are a whole lot smarter than anyone I've worked for who runs on Windows.

But the most poignant bit for me was this: People work a lot harder on things they like.

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