Monthly Archives: August 2019

Apple subsidiary FileMaker returns to its original name from the ’80s

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: It's wrong unless they also go back to the old dogcow logo. Moof!

After two decades of operating under the name FileMaker, the Apple-owned software company has decided to return to its original name: Claris.

Apple first created Claris in 1986 when it was under the leadership of John Sculley. Claris was meant to become an independent company focused on making software for the Mac, but three years later, Sculley changed course and bought back a minority ownership that had been sold off. Claris originally worked on programs like MacDraw, MacWrite, and MacPaint, but FileMaker became its leading product in the ’90s, selling 3 million copies a year across Mac and Windows.

In 1998, Apple gutted Claris and renamed it FileMaker, laying off...

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We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The publication process is largely garbage about profit-generation for parasitic publishers, and valueless prestige games for faculty. All peer review does is ensure it is cogently written, properly formatted, and doesn't offend the career interests of the entrenched players in an area. There is too much inertia, too much entrenched interest, and not enough agreement on alternative methods and metrics to kill it.
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What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Ha. "The UC Libraries do not endorse the use of Sci-Hub for article access." is the modern equivalent of “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.” I appreciate it.
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