[MyAppleMenu] Jan 20, 2013

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**** How Apple Used Its Money And Muscle To Kill An iTunes Competitor ****
<http://www.zdnet.com/how-apple-used-its-money-and-muscle-to-kill-an-itunes-competitor-7000010029/>
Ed Bott, ZDNet



**** Development Notes On Glassboard 2.3.3 ****
<http://inessential.com/2013/01/19/development_notes_on_glassboard_2_3_3>
Brent Simmons, Inesential.com



**** Caching With NSCache, Or, The Most Underrated Objective-C Class ****
<http://www.stephenbalaban.com/caching-with-nscache-the-most-underrated-objective-c-class/>
Stephen Balaban






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**** Goodbye, Anecdotes! The Age Of Big Data Demands Real Criticism ****
<http://www.theawl.com/2013/01/goodbye-anecdotes-the-age-of-big-data-demands-real-criticism>
Trevor Butterworth, The Awl


> If you think of all the information encoded in the universe from your genome to the furthest star, from the information that's already there, codified or un-codified, to the information pregnant in every interaction, "big" has become the measure of data. And our capacity to produce and collect Big Data in the digital age is very big indeed. Every day, we produce 2.5 exabytes of information, the analysis of which will, supposedly, make us healthier, wiser, and above all, wealthier—although it's all a bit fuzzy as to what, exactly, we're supposed to do with 2.5 exabytes of data—or how we're supposed to do whatever it is that we're supposed to do with it, given that Big Data requires a lot more than a shiny MacBook Pro to run any kind of analysis. "Start small," is the paradoxical advice from Bill Franks, author of <i>Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave</i>.