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the newly popular distributed source control systems presents three major choices: git, Mercurial, and Bazaar. All are restricted by the GPL-license, and therefore none is likely to inspire development of a Versions-caliber client.

Daniel Jalkut — Getting Pretty Lonely

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Shut up about the tools you use and write some code.

Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax « Important Shock

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I personally think that the problem with CSS isn’t the learning curve, it’s how difficult it is to maintain later—and I see macros as a great way of reducing that maintainability burden.

Simon Willison

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After months of work, the new Delicious is almost ready to come out of the oven.

Britta Gustafson - delicious blog

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And then there’s git rebase --interactive, which is a bit like git commit --amend hopped up on acid and holding a chainsaw — completely insane and quite dangerous but capable of exposing entirely new states of mind.

Ryan Tomayko — The Thing About Git

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The TV networks are the producers, the advertisers are the consumers, and the viewers are the product.

Michael Dorfman

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You can now purchase some music from the iTunes store that is unencrypted and plays anywhere. Apple calls these songs “iTunes Plus”, because it sounds so much better than calling everything else “iTunes Minus.”

Mark Pilgrim - The Day The Music Died

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

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My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy

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The [Java GUI] APIs are too clumsy to code to, and compared to any decent Mac app, the results look like a Soviet tractor built on a Monday.

In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment — Thought Palace

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Keyser Söze was wrong. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that Firefox is open source.

Gobuntu has already failed [dive into mark]

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Ever shipped software? What are the last few weeks like? We call it the fire drill because everyone is running around like crazy people doing random, unexpected shit.

Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D.