“Various people have discovered that Kindle Cloud Reader is a straight HTML5 app and that the server sends it unencrypted content a chapter at a time. It would be fairly easy to build a program that captures the HTML and stores it locally. This would be roughly equivalent to “stream capture” for audio and video, except that the result would be a perfect browser-renderable copy of the e-book.”
—Amazon Lowers the Speed Bump with Kindle Cloud Reader « Copyright and Technology
August 2011
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
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STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles” —If you want a happy ending… at BrainyQuote (via rafer)
Orson Welles” —If you want a happy ending… at BrainyQuote (via rafer)
If PHP Were British →
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I especially enjoy the new version of try… catch blocks:
would_you_mind {
// Code here
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}Vastly more polite and upbeat indeed.
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“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
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Just chatting with a friend and fellow healthcare innovator. A super talented, smart guy with a really elegant solution that every employer in the US should want. However, disrupting the price transparency issue of healthcare is pretty much impossible. That quote pretty much sums up a major reason why real innovation is nearly impossible in healthcare.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
