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Garbageon Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish

I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period.

I wish the same, but for different reason. I can't open Google+ links in office. :(

Garbageon ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN

Right click on the link and select "Bookmark This Link"

Garbageon Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

I am sorry, but I can't see link to edit or delete my submission. :(

Garbageon IntelliJ IDEA 11 is Out

The key new features introduced in IntelliJ IDEA 11 include:

* Support for web development with the Play framework.

* Groovy 2.0 support with new intention actions and refactorings.

* Gradle integration.

* CoffeeScript editor with code assistance, inspections and formatting options.

* Grails 2.0 support with all its features, including also Grails web-flow and Spock framework.

And most importantly,

* The updated IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition gets important improvements for Android development, including live preview of Android UI layouts and compatibility with the latest Android 4.0 SDK (Ice Cream Sandwich).

Garbageon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Now Available

What's new document [PDF] - http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RHEL_6_2_features_benefits.pdf

Garbageon Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad

If SAP dies tomorrow, the world is not going to end. Neither if Facebook dies. IMO, the point the author is trying to make is TC calling SAP's acquisitions boring.

Garbageon How about some Android graphics true facts?

[offtopic] Isn't saying "true fact" redundant? Unless it's true, how can it be a fact? [/offtopic]

Garbageon Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

The best part of the article:

The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”

Garbageon Stop SOPA, save the Internet

This might not be the best way to say, but whenever I see the patent and IP situation in US, I fell very happy that I live in India.

Garbageon It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too

Slightly offtopic, but those who wants to move on with HTML5, I found http://www.html5rocks.com/en/ is a very good resource to learn about HTML5.

Garbageon It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too

As Adobe mentioned, they are going to donate Flex SDK to community. Developing SDK is not a major problem. But development of underlying platform is. Can community trust Adobe that Flash Player runtime will be around for a longer time?

Garbageon It's not just Flash for Mobile, Flex is dead too

I am quite disagree with you. I always found Flex much more simpler and easier to developer. Writing MXML was breeze than writing AS.

Garbageon Celebrate 10 Years of Eclipse

And the site looks pretty too... :)

Garbageon Amit Gupta needs you

And now even less than that. (567)

Garbageon Android 4.0 SDK Now Available

It's a limitation/drawback of face recognition technology as a whole. I would not consider it as Google's.

Garbageon Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released

For me, the most interesting features are:

* 32-bit compatibility on amd64 systems

Ubuntu 11.10 provides "multiarch" support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems. For all amd64 installs and upgrades, select 32-bit software (like Skype and Flash), will now be installable directly using the same 32-bit packages that are used on i386 installations. You are not required to install the ia32-libs compatibility package. For users, this change means that the 32-bit libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only need to install those 32-bit libraries required by the user's application(s).

* Hybrid CD/USB images supported

All ISO images released with Ubuntu 11.10 are hybrid CD/USB images that can be written directly to a USB disk and booted without the use of special software. Users who wish to enable persistent storage on a USB stick can still use the usb-creator tool to configure the USB stick.

Garbageon Siri says some weird things

AFAIK, Siri internally asks these questions to Wolfram Alpha. And I am not sure if these questions are going into Apple's database. IMO, Wolfram Alpha is getting clever than Apple by this. :)

Garbageon Introducing Google JS Test

Thank you for the explanation. :)

Garbageon Being #2 on the Hacker News front page - HackerThings Launch Week

I was more interested in how much money did he make, but he wasn't talking about it after all in the blog.

Garbageon Introducing Google JS Test

I would love to hear how did you do that.

Garbageon Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

Try going to "about:memory" -> "Minimize Memory Usage"

Garbageon [dead]

There is a "Search" textbox at the bottom of the page.

Garbageon Facebook is scaring me

I guess, I should always browse Facebook in "Private Browsing" mode, without any other site open in that session.

Garbageon Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan

HP Labs India has created similar (same?) technology called SiteonMobile some time before.

http://www.siteonmobile.com/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hp_launches_siteonmobil...

Garbageon Cosmos - OS Written in C#

Screenshots please?

Garbageon NSA built a NoSQL database

Another Java hater? :s

Garbageon Michael Arrington Resigns From Techcrunch

Is this paywall for US only? I don't get any paywall for WSJ from India.

Garbageon Bada 2.0 (Mobile OS by Samsung) released

No.

Garbageon History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill

Please note that, the bill is not passed yet. It will go to committee and will be discussed in the parliament again.

Garbageon How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

[offtopic] But, Flash games inside excel has given immense pleasure to the employees where Flash games are not allowed directly. [/offtopic]