Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2007-05-29 | Author:Laurie Notaro [Notaro, Laurie]

With Ruby Spicer’s file copied and in her hand, Maye did the first thing any reporter would do—she went straight to the city directory and looked her up, but to ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 13,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | | Author:Jean-Dominique Bauby & Jean-Dominique Bauby

Through a Glass, Darkly Hunched in my wheelchair, I watch my children surreptitiously as their mother pushes me down the hospital corridor. While I have become something of a zombie ...
( Category: Disabled October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Jonathan Gatlin [Gatlin, Jonathan]

* * * The other day someone asked me, “Can’t Microsoft work with people so that they can be successful too?” That night I looked at a chart comparing Intel’s ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 13,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:George Cummings [Cummings, George]

Chapter 26 - Pressure from Steve There are too many stories already etched in history of Steve’s legendary antics. He will go down as one of the most impetuous CEO’s ...
( Category: Business October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Ken and Jay would be talking about the intricacies of some aspect of programming language—like trying to figure out, when somebody says “List by customer,” what that really means. Does ...
( Category: Hacking October 13,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:David Kushner [Kushner, David]

since the 1970s—when the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, linked networks of computers (the DARPAnet and, later, the Internet) together around the world—it was just starting ...
( Category: Business October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral. It was Apple versus IBM, to the death. He was annoyed at having to defend Macintosh ...
( Category: Scientists October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Jeffrey S. Young & William S. Simon [Young, Jeffrey S. & Simon, William S.]

All of that changed in a blinding flash at one Pixar meeting. Steve has certain territorial imperatives, like having the right kind of bottled water laid out for a meeting. ...
( Category: Computers & Technology October 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Lou Beach [Beach, Lou]

ANN O'DYNE, nurse, had healing hands, wee mitts sprung from the cuffs of her crisp white tunic. Her voice was gold, a brook in a meadow. It washed away fear ...
( Category: Short Stories October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan [Ryan, Jeff]

THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

There is very little margin for error. A single careless [mistake] that causes us to do a rebuild, or otherwise lose a build day, can easily blow 25% of our ...
( Category: Industrial Technology October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Stephen Toulouse [Toulouse, Stephen]

Its most common effect on individuals is to cause them to make design decisions based on the way customers should use products as opposed to how they actually use them, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 1988-11-15 | Author:Jeffrey Young [Young, Jeffrey]

He also annoyed Smith and Tribble by handing them their notification of raises even though he was not their manager at the time. 6. He interrupts and doesn't listen. This ...
( Category: Mathematics October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jordan Mechner [Mechner, Jordan]

An Uneasy Quiet October 18, 1989 Ten minutes before three a.m. I woke up and lay in bed, foggy and apprehensive. Waiting for the shaking to start. Then it shook ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Jordan Mechner [Mechner, Jordan]

It’s true I did quite a bit of dawdling this summer. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that I could have finished the program by summer’s ...
( Category: Memoirs October 13,2014 )