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Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.


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How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos.

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  • Privacy
    • “Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software”
    • Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker
    • Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month
    • Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft
    • Disruption
      • Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67
      • How to Compete With AWS
      • After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack
      • Slack Stock Could Be One of the Biggest Opportunities in Software, Analyst Says
      • Acquired | WhatsApp
      • Chef Habitat Gains a Foothold in the Enterprise, Streamlines Packaging
      • Google
        • Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service
        • Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021
        • Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
        • Apple
          • The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team
          • The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
          • Apple Holiday Results Top Estimates on Rebounding iPhone Demand
          • A new chapter for Kohsuke
          • COBOL on Kubernetes - stackconf
          • VMware’s vRealize $236M Patent Infringement Loss: 5 Things To Know
          • VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff
          • LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app
          • Nonsense
            • Google caves on unpopular favicon change in Search and promises to test more designs
            • Old Bay hot sauce is here: McCormick launches new way to season wings ahead of Super Bowl
            • Internal Monologue vs. Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech
            • Australia slips further in internet speed rankings
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