February 2012
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“Problem of free software is that’s abandoning the fields it was strong on....”
– The end of Chromium Notes — This is not your bugtracker. — really. of the entire issue, this is the important point?
“I will second the default of $HOME. I, like many people, like to watch...”
– Bug 658280 – GtkFileChooser shows only recent documents by default — there are times when I wonder was passes through the head of the people opening a bug, or adding a comment, on Bugzilla. on the other hand, there are times when I really, really don’t want to know.
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Me. Condensed.
ebassi: next year is going to be 10 years since my first contribution to a gnome project: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116133
aruiz: ebassi, pygtk? :O
ebassi: yep
aruiz: you have a dark past! X-)
ebassi: then I immediately switched to perl ;-)
aruiz: that past is even darker
wingo: dark.... and twisted
“How is it inappropriate that I am trying to turn people’s eyes towards...”
– Re: Remove Pornographic Apps from the “Apps available for download” : Mailing list archive : unity-design team in Launchpad — this thread is epic.
Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken →
minimalmac:
Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. She moved in to this place herself not too long ago and was proud to point out to us the brand new,…
“Most merges do cleanly resolve, and this behavior resulted in people making...”
– Git Blame: Anticipating Git 1.7.10 — finally. this is the number one reason I never really liked merging a topic branch: the intent, which is what the commit log is all about, is all but lost.
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database |... →
Why most UX is shite | disambiguity →
“Network TV, as we know it, will be gone. I think that the problem with network...”
– Bill Lawrence | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club — the last part of the interview contains a very lucid and interesting prediction of the future of network TV. it should be the topic for another interview altogether. I’d actually watch a panel on the future of TV with Bill Lawrence, Dan Harmon,...
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Prop. 8 overturned in California, court says state can’t ban gay marriage | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
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“I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. The belief in it...”
– Letters of Note: On the Meaning of Life
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“if there is one thing HR knows how to do, is pushing you away.”
– Nick