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by j_col 14y ago
Agreed, marketing gimmick. All about the product differentiation.
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by j_col 14y ago
I've been using Gnome 3 on 2x22" monitors for about 6 months now, really like it. ThinkStation D20 running Fedora 16 is my main dev box, very productive set-up.
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by j_col 14y ago
No idea why people are getting worked up about this, engineers move jobs all of the time. Once webOS becomes open source later in the year, it's real fate will be decided. As a fan of the platform, I hope that someone other than HP takes
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by j_col 14y ago
Perfect, I haven't missed it yet!
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by j_col 14y ago
NASA is broadcasting: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html Anyone know what time it's expected to dock at?
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by j_col 14y ago
Well it seems that Google seemed to care enough to change it: https://twitter.com/__DavidFlanagan/status/20542007304375501... Kudos to Google for fixing this.
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by j_col 14y ago
While I somewhat agree with you're comment, however you're not addressing the fact that Google is using this to push their web browser Chrome.
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by j_col 14y ago
Very cool, I've been wanting to do something similar with a personal server for some time.
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by j_col 14y ago
Sorry, but you have misinterpreted that. Perhaps quotes would have helped? > More like helping to perpetuate the image that "the corporation where I work is a "fun" place to be". ...where I'm quoting a Googler ( not me).
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by j_col 14y ago
Yes, and where do I say there that I work at Google?
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by j_col 14y ago
I'm sorry, but I think you must be responding to me by mistake. I never worked for Google, no idea where you got that from.
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by j_col 14y ago
...and that level of personalization requires that Google collects a lot of personal data about you. Happy to make the trade-off?
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by j_col 14y ago
Once again we have the latest Google marketing piece hitting the top of HN, getting tired of it (already commented about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3898130 ). Also note that this one is being used to market Chrome, even
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by j_col 14y ago
Don't forget the following: 1. Sit PHP-FPM behind nginx for a bank of persistent PHP interpreters. Access this via a Unix socket. 2. Use Memcache to cache your records. 3. Use APC to cache your PHP byte code.
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by j_col 14y ago
Wow, Linus does not come across well in that thread at all.
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Layoffs Are About To Hit HP(businessinsider.com)
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by j_col 14y ago
I deleted my Facebook account due to the exact same peer pressure.
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by j_col 14y ago
You could have a virus that has put a bogus entry for twitter.com in your local hosts file.
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by j_col 14y ago
What, you mean their re-invention of the PDA?
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by j_col 14y ago
All I think about when I look at that phone is that it is yet another bland slab phone running Android. That form factor is really holding back handset design in my opinion, and I had high hopes that Samsung was going to do something reall
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by j_col 14y ago
Bingo! I heard a rumour it might be Facebook.
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by j_col 14y ago
The only thing I feel is sympathy for users who continue to buy Apple products.
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by j_col 14y ago
> Plus... well... THIS particular simple throwaway Easter egg is what bothers you? You know there are several multi-billion-dollar industries that employ smart people in creating "fun" ways for people to unproductively spend their time,
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by j_col 14y ago
Hence my original point that it was probably done on 20% time (not mandated by management). I disagree that I am being cynical for pointing out the self-evident facts that: 1. Google spends a lot of quality dev hours programming "fun" ea
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by j_col 14y ago
More like helping to perpetuate the image that the corporation where I work is a "fun" place to be, helping to improve our image and attract the right recruits. Big G are masters at this, just look at how much positive press they receive a
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by j_col 14y ago
Yeah, good to see they are spending their 20% time solving real problems.
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by j_col 14y ago
Thanks for that.
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by j_col 14y ago
I somewhat agree. Frankly I'm no fan off Google, Facebook, or Apple. But pretending that one of them is more "open" then the other because they open source some software now and again is a falsehood: they are all for-profit corporations,
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by j_col 14y ago
> (please don't mention some minor FB side-products; Apple has tons of innovative products but none of them is free). Please don't rewrite your original comment after I've responded, not cool.
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by j_col 14y ago
Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.

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