Written by sameer in Uncategorized on Tue 08 January 2013.
I was reading an article about how Google+ is the future.
Why the Google+ long game is brilliant
The author is trying to make a point, and I get it. But when skimming, I just picked up the lines in bold:
- I live in Gmail.
- Google Voice is my phone …
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One needs the following in order face a git disaster and live to tell the story:
- Humility, to read the fine manual.
- Courage, to submit your code to the will of the force.
- Common sense, to stop you from manually editing any file under ./.git.
- Luck.
- Tactical smarts, because sometimes …
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Written by sameer in Uncategorized on Mon 17 October 2011.
I don't remember who said that, but I do believe that's exactly what's happening with Ubuntu and the new Unity desktop. I have not tried it out yet, but given the strong criticism that Unity is receiving, I believe it is all set for world domination.
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First, a few quotes:
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world …
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Just noticed this weekend that I don't seem to have any control over ads that LiveJournal shows on my blog. Was browsing on a borrowed PC with no AdBlock, and was shocked to see the right side occupied by a huge flash video of a blonde teenager seemingly chatting on …
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Almost everyone who uses the Gnome desktop is familiar with one of either Tomboy or F-Spot ... two tools that have become poster boys of the Mono project. Well, I decided to stop using them. Not only that, I decided to purge the root of evil, which is the Mono project …
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I have been unsuccessful at creating a verbatim environment in a beamer frame. The manual says that it is fully supported, and all you have to do is set the [fragile] argument for that slide. So the following is supposed to work. (Note the weird indenting, since verbatim has to …
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