…you should as always feel perfectly free to write for your own system’s idiosyncrasies (sometimes called “features”)
Month: April 2016
Yahhhhooooooooeey!
(Read the title like Goofy falling off a cliff.)
Try not to think of Yahoo’s impending sale as the sad end of an era. Yahoo has been dead since they turned Microsoft’s deal down in 2008.
But, still, the details on this are getting ugly. It was interesting to watch Marissa Mayer try to turn this thing around, but I’m not sure anyone could. You can’t bail out the Titanic with Dixie cups…
Apple’s New Tables
Apple’s new campus is large that it requires super long tables. 500 of them. 18′ each. The Apple Store tables are nice, but the Apple Campus tables are nice and suitable for a game of shuffleboard.
They’re being made in Europe, with wood from Belgium and German. And then shipped to California, which is what turned out to be the most fascinating part of the story for me:
The order of Pod Island Tables is currently in transit inside capacious 40′ x 40′ shipping containers, each piece carefully protected within large aluminum wrap, each piece vacuum sealed to keep the wood protected as they journey across the Atlantic. Eventually each of the 500 tables—alongside 300 Essenza tables, and 200 other benches—will be installed by crane and dolly within Apple Campus 2, where the company’s nearly 13,000 employees will come into contact with a table that began its life nearly 6,000 miles away, each as unique as the towering trees with which each was made.
The mind boggles… I just love the picture of something being vacuum sealed inside of aluminum foil, too. I never buy bigger than the 75′ roll when it’s on sale. I can’t imagine the size of the box they use for these tables. Maybe they’re available at CostCo?
Also, it would likely drive me nuts to work at a place like Apple or Pixar which they design to make sure more social interactions are forced to happen. Ick. I hate cubicles as much as the next guy, but I hate those rows of computers in open planned offices that Silicon Valley seems to love so much, even more
My Favorite Error Message of the Day
$> tail -f
tail: warning: following standard input indefinitely is ineffective
Yup, can’t disagree with that. Next time, I’ll remember to type the file name in before hitting the Enter key.