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Quotes of the Day (48)
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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Shepard said:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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DCFemella said:
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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imma said:
Start by making something that can be easily maintained and adjusted, then and only then try to make it do what you want :-) note: you do need to check this last step will be possible during the first one
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders (68)
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Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant. And they’re using microblogging and social bookmarking sites as tools to figure out what content is relevant up to the second. Real-time search is valuable because it lets you know ...
Dance around the world (PICS) (82)
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The Big Picture (201)
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We humans are natural dancers. Dances can be celebrations, or for praise, or for an audience - or just a simple act of letting the rhythm move your body. Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun. Collected here are recent photographs of us, human beings around the world, professional and amateur, in motion for all of the reasons above and more. (39 photos total)A dancer ...
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David said:
Man.... this blog takes the most awesome pictures...
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mac said:
For Corey, if you don't already subscribe to this one.
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Jake said:
The Wife loves her some dance photos.
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Atuuschaaw said:
Awesome!
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Cris said:
Meraviglioso Big Picture come al solito
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rulala said:
::love::
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Julie said:
This makes me so happy. A wide variety of dance settings.
James Morris: Classic Unix Design Principles (5)
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Kernel Planet (10)
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In the process of preparing my talk for KCA, I re-read the classic paper: The UNIX Time-Sharing System by Ritchie & Thompson. This paper was revised several times between 1973 and 1978, and the authors' observations are well worth remembering:Perhaps paradoxically, the success of the Unix system is largely due to the fact that it was not designed to meet any predefined objectives. The first version was written when one of us (Thompson), dissatisfied with ...
Mac4Lin Gives Linux Desktops the Complete Mac Look [Downloads] (92)
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Linux: Mac4Lin, a package of skins, wallpapers, icons, and interface refinements that brings a completist Mac look to Linux with an automated installation, has reached the 1.0 stage with an impressive array of features. Besides basic theming changes to your desktop covering login windows, window look and feel, a modified app launcher dock, and more, Mac4Lin plugs into and plays nice with a lot of third-party apps. Thunderbird, Rhythmbox, Songbird, Pidgin, Firefox 3, and others ...
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Chad said:
I might actually check this out. If the dock and GlobalMenu work well, I can keep those and ditch the rest.
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NaFigator said:
Говно, не правда ли?
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David said:
Intriguing. My big question would be if you sat down two PC users at a Mac and a Linux skinned Mac, how would their initial impressions differ?
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Mike Lepore said:
For those of us who have macs and still have linux machines...
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Bill Blaney said:
For Chris
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Eduo said:
Uy. Esto es como cuando uno dice que no le gustan las tetas grandes y va y se te planta una Sabrina enfrente y te hace ojitos, y te dice "ven, ven", y bambolea poquitín para que quede claro que lo que te ofrece es lo que piensas, y que será tan prohibido como quieras que lo sea.Luego, claro, no se lo cuentas más que a tus amigos que les gustan las tetas grandes también. Así por lo bajini. Como quien descubre el colacao a cucharadas y le da vergüenza admitirlo.
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JeffMoses.com said:
looks just as good and does more for free... Is there any excuse anymore?
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Liz said:
Welp... Guess there's no excuse now.
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TMaYaD said:
Felt nausea at this one. Don't get me wrong. Mac UI is cool and I've experimented with these look a likes a lot.Just because it's a mac doesn't mean its awesome. And the best (for you) is easiest to achieve on linux. For example my best setup, I discovered, is compiz+emerald+awn+stjerm and nothing else.
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codeAries said:
Mac transformation for Linux
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Erik Shpeley said:
This is awesome... Looks like a step closer to being able to having MAC OS X fully running on a PC (even though we all know that it will probably never happen!)
Torvalds: Happiness is a warm SCM (6)
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Linus Torvalds is happy about the 2.6.31 merge window, mostly because people have figured out how to use git most effectively. He also provides a bit more detail on the tradeoffs involved in using git (or any distributed SCM really) in a comment response. "Part of the problem is that 'git' is such a flexible tool that you can use it in various modes, and mix things up freely. The whole distributed nature means that ...
Guy #3 (148)
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Paul just sent over this video of a dance tribe forming spontaneously at a music festival.My favorite part happens just before the first minute mark. That's when guy #3 joins the group. Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy. But it's guy #3 who made it a movement.Initiators are rare indeed, but it's scary to be the leader. Guy #3 is rare too, but it's a ...
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siggimus said:
"My favorite part happens just before the first minute mark. That's when guy #3 joins the group. Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy. But it's guy #3 who made it a movement."
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Matt Haughey said:
There is some fascinating human dynamics at play here. It's like an entire dissertation on culture and psychology in this modern world in 3 minutes on youtube.
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Christian Rodriguez said:
I keep Seth Godin on my blog roll for posts like this.
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jplrosman said:
Wow this is incredible... if you see with marketing eyes
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Kelly O said:
This video kind of freaks me out.
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Jade Robbins said:
There are always people to share in your dream, but they might be JUST as scared as you to start it.
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Mitra said:
I love it!
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Jack Humphrey said:
I'm just DYING here laughing so hard. My god that was funny on like 12 different levels!
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ariel gajardo said:
um beta da dança.
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Alli said:
This is why Seth is the master of the blog!
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AlexD said:
pretty rad outcome
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Mark Brenneman said:
Awesome video. Tipping point=3
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Tim said:
I'm pretty sure guy #1 was content to dance crazily by himself.
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Brian C. Smith said:
Who in your school is a #3 guy or girl?
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nelson said:
michael says this is old, but i hadn't seen it yet
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EdVentures said:
How many of us are willing to be Guy 1? Guy 3?
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Javier Errazuriz said:
Idolo el Guy #1
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Paul said:
Just love the mob mentality!!!
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Devlin D said:
This video is awesome, but leave it to Seth Godin to extract a lesson from it. It's true, we need more guy #3s.
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Harald Felgner said:
Watch this. Amazing. #3 makes it a movement!
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Ramchandran said:
FUnny video, but very interesting point!
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Doug Mirams said:
Whoorah! I was ahead by two days. (http://twitter.com/dmirams/status/2064025755)
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Bigtravman said:
Now this is pretty fucking cool
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Mahesh CR said:
Brilliant example of how movements are begun, the role of leaders. Do yourself a favour and watch this.
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frank barry said:
Will you (or me) be guy #3. Pretty cool point made from this random video.
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Aaron H. said:
There is something incredibly illuminating here about crowd mentality and virality.
The 2.6.30 kernel is out (6)
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Linus has released the 2.6.30 kernel. Some of the bigger changes in 2.6.30 include a number of filesystem improvements, the integrity measurement patches, the TOMOYO Linux security module, reliable datagram socket protocol support, object storage device support, the FS-Cache filesystem caching layer, the nilfs filesystem, threaded interrupt handler support, and much more. For more information, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.30 page, the long-format changelog, and LWN's statistics for this development cycle.
Introducing Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web (9)
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Planet Mozilla (40)
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It’s fucking 2009 and no browser vendor supports notifications for Webapps. The revolution begins today. Yip is a Firefox extension that ports the Fluid and Prism notification APIs over to Firefox so you can receive Growl notifications from web applications. (or plain old Firefox notifications if you’re on Windows or Linux). Download The great thing about Yip is that we don’t have to be stuck in a chicken-and-egg situation. Many websites have already implemented notifications ...
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Aubrey said:
This is great, and all, but can you configure which sites you want notifications from? Honestly, I'd rather have a plugin like this on a case-by-case basis. I think it'd be a better experience for an individual site to have it's alerts as a jetpack plugin so you had to opt-in to their messaging.
Fastest Firefox, Part 2: More Speediness (14)
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As I wrote last week, the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release will be significantly faster than any previous version of Firefox. To spread the word about this achievement, we’re asking members of worldwide Mozilla community to share videos of their own speedy feats. If you’d like to join the fun, here’s all you have to do: 1. Record a short video of you at your fastest. You can be playing piano, running laps or writing a ...
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Daniel Jomphe said:
40 seconds filled with awesomeness and mystery.
Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix (122)
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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS is fascinating reading. Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson (pictured at left), a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell Laboratories, saw the month-long departure of his wife and young son as an opportunity to put his ideas ...
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felix said:
Awesome genealogy.
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eric said:
Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers.
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robdiana said:
I had no idea that Minix was still around. I thought it was purely used for academic purposes.
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Razzu said:
"spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an assembler" - One week for shell and one whole week for editor :O
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djspark said:
in August 1969 [...] He wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language [...], spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an assembler. *TÁ BOM?*
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