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...The AeroPress is the coffee version of Linux, the geeks’ preferred computer operating system. It is not pretty, not especially easy, but it is effective and almost cool. jonathan.margolis@ft.com...
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...Its precursor was first created in the 1990s in California by libertarian computer geeks who wanted to build a democratic internet, free from government or business control....
...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: We are moving towards a global plutocracy / From Annalisa Burello, London, UK...
...Geek Squad was started in 1994 and made part of Best Buy in 2002. It offers computer repair and electronics installation services and currently employs 20,000 “agents”, according to Best Buy....
...Geek Squad was started in 1994 and became a part of Best Buy in 2002. It offers computer repair and electronics installation services and currently employs 20,000 “agents”, according to Best Buy....
...21 A computer algorithm that turns photographs into paintings in the style of famous artists was invented in 2015....
...But it’s not just computer geeks that the great American carmaker is hiring these days....
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...I would imagine that geeks would love it more than aesthetes.”...
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...Palmer Luckey is holding court among the geeks....
...After completing the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon Valley in 2011, the founders of Codecademy, a site that teaches computer programming, moved back to New York....
...Grand Theft Oldie The release of Grand Theft Auto V shows computer games have matured from a cottage industry into a big business....
...Catmull, a PhD student from the University of Utah, nurtured the dream of making the first computer-animated movie....
.../RFKHvq Apple to return some Mac production to U.S. in 2013 Apple Inc plans to move some production of Macintosh computers to the United States fromChina next year, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in remarks...
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...“It’s a full-on PC that won’t behave at all like a computer,” says Mark Anderson, a US technology commentator. Personal computing has already been going through an extended evolutionary spasm....
...But transitioning from teenage computer geek who used her coding skills to play pranks on her friends at computer camp to CEO of an investor-backed company hasn’t been what she expected....
...This time, it was Mr Bezos who bewitched the geeks....
...The more I talked to computer geeks who saw Silicon Valley as their own Mecca, where coding at a party was cooler than drinking, the more I understood that they were also outcasts....
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