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wildster··on OpenDesk – Open Source Furniture
Is there anything like this for the architectural design of buildings?
wildster··on Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
I can't imagine what Reddit would look like with fact checking. Redditors would not be happy if a popular story drops off the front page because someone deemed in inaccurate. How would the incentive structure work?
wildster··on Ask HN: Should I learn Rails without a Mac?
Sublime Text and Ubuntu is not a bad choice.
wildster··on Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana
40g a month is a lot more than I thought that a government would go for. 28g is a ounce.
wildster··on PeepCode: Leveling Up
Congratulation Geoffrey, the quality of your screencasts never disappoints.
wildster··on U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage
That didn't work out very well for Thomas Drake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake
wildster··on Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data
This issue is well covered in Joel Spolsky's article The Perils of JavaSchools http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...

Saying that I think it is a bit elitist to think you need a new term, who gets to say who can use that term?

wildster··on Software will not be patentable in New Zealand
The UK and Europe have similar restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_K...
wildster··on Facebook Home
Facebook are trying to do to Android what Google is doing with Chrome to the desktop.
wildster··on Ask PG: Did the "apply to YC without an idea" experiment work?
Quality of software is beyond what it does, it also means how easy is it to maintain and change.
wildster··on Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
Yay, another plan for the Digg brand without a source of revenue. If you put too much advertising people will go the next hot thing.
wildster··on Samsung's future is Tizen, not Android
I just got an upgrade on a Sony Xperia J from their version of 4.0 to their version of 4.1.
wildster··on I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3
I'm happy with Sublime Text 2.
wildster··on Rails 3.2.12, 3.1.11, and 2.3.17 have been released
Change your Gemfile so it says "gem 'rails', '~> 3.2.12'"
wildster··on Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released
Why do Fedora releases have such bad names? Although Spherial Cow is at least better than Beefy Miracle.
wildster··on Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
Shame it does not have player ids. I wonder how many players with the same surname and the same first initial play for the same team.
wildster··on Set Up a Raspberry Pi as a Personal Web Server
You would be better off with Nginx rather than Apache with such limited hardware.
wildster··on Ubuntu Looks To An SDK, Improved App Development
They should adopt the Human Interface Guidelines that Elementary OS use. http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines
wildster··on JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
I won't be using for a few a years but I am glad it is leading pushing people to CSS3 compliance.
wildster··on A standing desk for $22
I stay fit by running and playing 5-a-side soccer but I am 5'9 weight 197lbs, I ran 10k in 50 minutes last weekend. BMI is a strange measure if I can be overweight without trying to put on muscle but be fitter than 95% of the population.
wildster··on Take my money, HBO
This is the tweet showing on the page: @sgbakerr I would pay $0 a month for a standalone @HBOGO subscription and pirate all my @HBO programming takemymoneyhbo.com #takemymoneyHBO
wildster··on "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
I'm glad I have stuck with 11.10!
wildster··on Jonathan Schwartz says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs
Good guy Schwartz does the right thing.
wildster··on The War On RSS
I don't bother with a blog aggregator much anymore but I don't see itunes ever replacing rss/atom for podcast feeds.
wildster··on Light Table - a new IDE concept
I would pay to be able to use this on Rails projects.
wildster··on Notch's next game is an MMO
Red Dwarf!
wildster··on Kickstarter: rails.app
£25,000, how long would it take set up a repo so you could do go: sudo apt-get install rails-3.2 on Ubuntu/Debian?
wildster··on Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
Apple should buy a US mobile carrier and do it right.
wildster··on This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"
Why do facts lean left?
wildster··on Learning from Rails' failures
You are going to find problems in any framework for a program of that size.
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