#john hennessy

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Let me get closer... I have a hell inside me where your demons can live.

-- John Hennessy

(Krakow, Poland)

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Today’s Poem

Netflix Green Man --John Hennessy

Netflix the Green Man and any screen becomes a vineyard. Episodes cluster and climb, trellis narrative. Between the corn and lichen, creepers muster

nine lives. They grow, divide, and splice, steal scenes by running fox grape, bittersweet, return on any handheld device as moonseed, woodbine, dodder, buckwheat —

false buckwheat — note, though star- and heart-shaped. He trucks some mascot for our kids, glad-hands a sidekick dressed to burrow, root, and take them through their lessons rattling dad’s

bouzouki nerves, mom’s percussive bones. Return, that ritual button, pressed like wine in HD, when end credits jolt. Stop time, we’re keyed up. Eternal return? Eternal jones.

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John Hennessy on the Leadership Crisis in Silicon Valley John Hennessy is the chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and the former president of Stanford.

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4/17/02 - Stanford “ProFro” weekend was when accepted freshmen could come see the campus, stay with a “host” who would show him or her around, and learn about whether or not they wanted to spend the next four years of their lives in Palo Alto.  Stanford was not known for having an active social scene back in the early 2000s; people were very focused on their work and Tinder was still years away.  The dude on the left is a ProFro asking former Stanford president John L. Hennessy what he felt about the dating scene on campus at the time.  His reaction summed it all up.  Apparently, Hennessy had cut this strip out and had it hanging in his office.

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Turing Prize Winners Paved the Way to Smartphone Chips

Turing Prize Winners Paved the Way to Smartphone Chips

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As a young computer-science professor at Stanford in the early 1980s, John Hennessy helped pioneer a new computing concept called RISC, for “reduced instruction set computer.” He expected others to see the value of the idea and commercialize it. When no one did, Hennessy started a company called MIPS.

“We never intended to be entrepreneurs,” Hennessy says. “I thought what we were doing…

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Alphabet is tumbling after a fourth quarter whiff and names John Hennessy as new board chair

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Alphabet is tumbling after a fourth quarter whiff and names John Hennessy as new board chair

Alphabet, earnings, finance, John Hennessy

Google parent company Alphabet’s big run over the past few months came to a screeching halt today after it came out with its fourth-quarter results, which fell beneath expectations set by Wall Street for the advertising giant — sending the stock down around 5 percent and shaving off billions in market cap.

While Google owns a massive chunk of the advertising system — and it still continues to print money — it’s found itself trying to diversify itself away from that with a series of other big bets on products like hardware and cloud computing. That’s starting to pay off as growth in its “other revenues” and “other bets” continues to rise year-over-year, but there are still a couple of signs that point to a potentially rocky future for Google.

Like other big tech companies reporting this quarter, Google logged a $9.9 billion charge related to changes in U.S. tax law. Here’s the scorecard:

Revenue: $32.32 billion, compared to $31.87 billion Wall Street estimates, up 24 percent year-over-year Earnings: $9.70 per share, compared to estimates of $9.98 per share Other revenues: $4.7 billion Other bets: $409 million TAC as a % of revenue: 24 percent YoY paid clicks: 43 percent YoY cost-per-click: -14 percent QoQ cost-per-click: -6 percent

Google is also naming John Hennessy, who’s been on its board since 2004, as its chair following Eric Schmidt departing in December last year.

In particular, Google’s last quarters have been marked with the creeping shadow of increasing costs for its traffic acquisition as a percentage of Google’s revenue, or TAC. While for the past several quarters it hasn’t raised any massive alarm bells, it could represent a potential problem for Google in the future as more and more activity shifts to mobile devices. It’s something that’s come up a couple of times from analysts poking around at the subject on quarterly calls to discuss the earnings results, and it is still continuing to creep up. Today is a surprising slip-up for Google, which, while it continues to print money and beat Wall Street’s expectations on the revenue front, found itself tumbling after its fourth-quarter earnings came out. In the past year, Google’s stock has risen nearly 50 percent:

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Book Review: Dawn of the New Breed

Dawn of the New Breed was such a surprise and a complete rediscovery of the series in itself.

Book:Dawn of the New Breed

Author: John Hennessy

Plot: England, 1472. A teenage Mariana Claremont is having a secret liaison with England’s premier soldier and commander of the King’s army.Unhappy with their union, separatists amongst the Kingdom set in motion a plan that will change England and Scotland forever. Several centuries later, three vulnerable children catch the eye of a bloodthirsty…

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Book Review: The Halloweeners by John Hennessy

GRAB IT RIGHT NOW !! seriously !! its a short and quick read and very innocently explores halloween through the eyes of kids. if for nothing the book is a perfect way to relieve the days when as kids we had less serious issues to worry about. Relieve the days of Trick or Treat

Book: The Halloweeners

Author: John Hennessy

Plot: Four children are all dressed up and ready for Halloween. There’s Kirsty, the witch. Craig the vampire. Then there’s Nula, the ghost, and Toby, who’s co-ordinating things whilst dressed as a zombie. They couldn’t just be a ragtag bunch of stereotypes though, so Toby christened them the Halloweeners.Craig was new to it, though the others had…

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