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Dave Troy
davetroy.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Dave Troy, a Baltimore entrepreneur who founded the Beehive, writes on startups, cities, education and local politics.
What HN saysHN links it for essays on city machine politics and Baltimore's startup scene; commenters point to him as a source on the Beehive.
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subelsky · 2011-01-05
The original post is good reading for anyone who lives in a city with machine politics. e.g. pretty much everyone who lives in a city! http://davetroy.com/posts/a-new-leader-for-a-new-baltimore
llimllib · 2009-12-30
Talk to Dave Troy, he founded the Beehive in Baltimore and could fill you in on the details and his experiences so far:
http://beehivebaltimore.org/
http://davetroy.com/?p=599
There's an email address on the beehive page or drop me an email and I'll hook you up.
(I work next to, not in, the beehive)
onosendai · 2012-10-05
Random fact, there's actually a bit of a story behind the trackpoint being red.
As I was told by a guy at IBM, and I haven't been able to confirm this elsewhere, is that at the time the Thinkpad was originally conceived, IBM design guidelines mandated that the only red elements on a piece of hardware should be the power switches. However, the team behind the Thinkpad design though (rightly) that a red trackpoint would look awesome on the black keys. Their solution? They put it down as 'magenta' on the specs to get it approved.
And while on the subject of Thinkpad lore, the name comes from notepads that were distributed to IBM employees with the word 'THINK' emblazoned on the cover (http://davetroy.com/posts/think-then-and-now)