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Tech Tuesday: Storage (Oh My, How It Has Grown)
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2011
So far of the building blocks for computer systems we have covered processors and memory. We have seen that processors have become massively faster and that memory has become massively cheaper. Today we will learn about storage and find that [...] Read more
Margin Call (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 7, 2011
Susan and I saw Margin Call on Saturday night. The movie has a great cast, including Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and one of my personal favorites, Paul Bettany. My theory is that the more you know about finance, the more [...] Read more
Startup Weekend Syracuse
Albert Wenger – Nov 4, 2011
I am about to get on a plane to fly up to Syracuse for Startup Weekend. Really looking forward to meeting the participants. It is awesome to have many more people exploring startups as an alternative to working at some [...] Read more
Greece and Occupy Wallstreet (and Startup Financing)
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2011
The European Union (EU) has been a work in progress for many years. Since its inception there has been tremendous tension between what can be decided at the EU level and what is decided by the individual countries. Despite an [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Main Memory (Dumb, Lazy and Slow)
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2011
In “Of Bits and Bytes” we learned that all kinds of data such as numbers, text, graphics and much more can be represented as sequences of bits. Then last week we saw that instructions for the CPU are also simply [...] Read more
Trust and Personal Scaling
Albert Wenger – Oct 31, 2011
I have had the privilege of observing a number of founders grow their companies from just a few people to over a hundred employees. Leaving all the other growth challenges aside, I have come to conclude that personal scaling is [...] Read more
Codecademy
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2011
Andy has a great post over at the USV blog announcing our investment in Codecademy. Knowing how computers work and how to program them I believe will be quintessential knowledge for everyone. It is shocking to me that I had [...] Read more
Help Stop the Internet Censorship Bill
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2011
There is an awful bill making its way around congress. I first wrote about this when it was called COICA and was thankfully defeated due to opposition from Senator Ron Wyden. Then it returned as the PROTECT IP act or [...] Read more
John McCarthy
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2011
This has been a strange month with several of the giants of computing passing away within weeks of each other. I have already written about Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. Now John McCarthy, the father of Lisp and early AI [...] Read more