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StCroixon This Is 2016 Not 2012

Does anyone else feel that this Op-Ed piece is more 2012 : 2007 than 2012 : 2016?

StCroixon It's surprisingly simple to click jack using CSS4

CSS4? Where was I? and When??

StCroixon Instagram Fakes Spreading Malware on Android Devices

This is definitely fodder for the "walled garden" proponents to justify closed and heavily vetted architectures. It feels like the old WWW-Wild west days but this time with bigger brothers smugly looking down with the "tut, tut, tut" expression on their faces.

StCroixon New courses added to Coursera (Humanities, Medicine, ...)

Anyone know why some of the courses offered by the likes of Standford that are available as open (free courses) on iTunesU and across the web aren't available on Coursera? One thing I dislike about the courses on iTunesU is the lack of being able to connect with others who are also studying along with you. There's no community per se

StCroixon IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes

Yeah as I say, "I hope"... maybe even retrospectively from atop of his own 'iCloud'. Please read my comment as slightly tongue in cheek, I'm well aware of his later-life stance on adult material.

StCroixon Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)

Love it!

StCroixon IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes

I hope that Steve Jobs, who happily credited himself as an openly adherent member and ambassador of the counterculture that fought for ideas like this to be acceptable in a then over-conservative society, is rightfully turning in his grave.

StCroixon Nearing Bankruptcy, Fruugo Burned Through €40 Million to Generate €100K

This site looks like it's made for 2002 interwebs at best

StCroixon Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s

Ah that brings back memories

StCroixon Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night

It is bullshit, I'm currently learning to program by following the excellent CS106A paper at Stanford, free on iTunesU. In the current online climate you can learn to code without trying to figure out how to pay a massive student loan back when you're done.

What bugged me about the spin was the comment about Systrom receiving no formal training, unlike Zuck. Zuck built Facebook with next none of the "formal training" he was supposedly getting during his short stint at Harvard. Systrom actually graduated and then went on to be exposed to some pretty big name companies in the tech world.

Good on him though, and yes, inspiring stuff.

StCroixon Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night

From the article:

Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, the man responsible for acquiring the popular photo sharing app for $1 billion, Systrom received no formal engineering training.

From Systrom's bio on Instagram:

Kevin graduated from Stanford University in 2006 with a BS in Management Science & Engineering—he got his first taste of the startup world when he was an intern at Odeo that later became Twitter. He spent two years at Google—the first of which was working on Gmail, Google Reader, and other products...

Gotta love the spin.