May 2013
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May 18th
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BlackBerry To Launch BBM On Android And iOS This... →
What’s the point? BBM => 60million users and a declining platform WhatsApp => 200million users and increasing. Bet Blackberry will make a big deal of the fact that they’ve added 100million+ users after introducing iOS and Android versions because of so many new people trying the app out.
May 14th
April 2013
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Congress spokesman's tweet on blast near BJP... →
‘After this morning’s bomb blast near the BJP office in Bangalore, Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed tweeted, “If the blast near BJP’s office in Banglore is a terror attack,it will certainly help the BJP politically on the eve of election.”’ Why am I even surprised such scoundrels are in-charge of running the great nation of India. At this hour of care and...
Apr 17th
February 2013
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“People clamouring for Narendra Modi should realise the only policy which can...”
Feb 15th
January 2013
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“Interviewer#1 : Sorry I was late, I was in a meeting I couldn’t get...”
– http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/16/what-if-cars-were-rented-like-we-hire-programmers.html
Jan 17th
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“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. So keep dangerous people away from...”
Jan 12th
December 2012
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Dec 4th
November 2012
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Nov 14th
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October 2012
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Oct 2nd
September 2012
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Sep 25th
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Sep 21st
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August 2012
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“Windows RT = Really Terrible”
Aug 8th
July 2012
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Powerless Superpower? →
Summed up perfectly in a Forbes article.. The power crisis is the latest of a series of missteps by the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance which have reinforced its image as a lame duck government. While most citizens in all major cities in India continue to live just another day in their life without electricity, the government continues to show handsome projections of...
Jul 31st
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The UNIX security model sucks →
.. It assumes that attacks come from the outside, and is designed to protect the user from other users on the same system. In the UNIX model, everything run by a particular user has the same rights as the user. In practice, that just isn’t a viable security model anymore .. .. A modern security model must be fundamentally built on the principle of distrust. Distrust everything. Any app...
Jul 30th
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Jul 15th
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June 2012
2 posts
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Jun 26th
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Jun 23rd
May 2012
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May 26th
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April 2012
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Apr 16th
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“if you’re tempted to reinvent the wheel… don’t.”
– Mike Krieger, Co-founder, Instagram
Apr 13th
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Meteor: A new way to build apps. →
The most impressive feature, if it works as it says, is amazing! Hot Code Pushes. Update your app while users are connected without disturbing them. When you push a new version, the new code is seamlessly injected into each browser frame in which the app is open.
Apr 12th
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No Balance
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance. –Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview for the PBS/AOL Makers series
Apr 9th
March 2012
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2012 Enemies of the Internet Report: India →
Ever since the 2008 Bombay attacks, the authorities have been intensifying their Internet surveillance and pressure on technical service providers while publicly denying censorship accusations.
Mar 12th
February 2012
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Not cool Path. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/path_is_a_free_app_and_it_will_spy_on_us.php
Feb 7th
January 2012
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The Pirate Bay's Statement Against SOPA/PIPA
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion...
Jan 19th
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September 2011
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Sep 23rd
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August 2011
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Humility →
drcairns: One day, I was working late and left my office to get dinner at the cafeteria. When I stepped outside, I realized it had been the first time I had seen the sun all day, as it had been foggy that morning, and I had skipped lunch. I looked up at the sun and smiled, enjoying the feeling of it warming my face and arms, and I continued walking across the quad like this, face up at the sky,...
Aug 25th
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July 2011
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[OS X Lion] Steps to bring Front Row back from the... →
With another OS X launch, come another set of missing apps. With the success of Apple TV, Front Row has become a redundant app in the Apple ecosystem. But a small set of users like me, who don’t own an Apple TV (yet), Front Row provides a nice TV interface to consume media from our repositories. Luckily, Mac user Ralph Perdomo has setup a package installer that brings Front Row from Snow Leopard...
Jul 21st
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April 2011
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Would you buy extra storage space in Gmail if you...
Would you buy extra storage space in Gmail if you ever run out of it? Answer here
Apr 21st
February 2011
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“Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human ‘Jeopardy!’ player: It’s very...”
– Ken Jennings writes a day before losing to Watson on Jeopardy!
Feb 18th
November 2010
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Mac 101: What’s happening when your Mac is... →
Recently, in the interest of sleeping soundly through the night, I’ve been turning off my 27” iMac every night. No, I’m not doing this for energy conservation, but the darned thing used to light up at random intervals in the middle of the night. Since I now have to power up the iMac every morning, I see the bootup process regularly.
Nov 16th
August 2010
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pdftk 1.41 for mac os x 10.6 →
To install pdftk with any of the three third-party package management systems (MacPorts, fink, as well as homebrew), last time I checked, do not have pdftk in them at all, or their versions are broken..
Aug 12th
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How to create an ISO of a disk in Mac OS X
Open Disk Utility and use the New Image from Folder menu item to create an image. Ensure it is uncompressed and use the CD/DVD master option. This creates a .cdr image file which can only work on a Mac (because it uses the HFS+ file system.) To convert into .iso, open the Terminal Assuming your new image is called ~/Desktop/Master.cdr (the file is on your desktop and called Master.cdr) type: ...
Aug 7th
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July 2010
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A Good Design
What makes a a good design? Defined by Dieter Rams (head of deign at Braun), Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good...
Jul 1st
May 2010
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Meet Android →
May 15th
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April 2010
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Apr 24th
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Apr 13th
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Me @ Flavors.me →
Pretty cool huh! :) Liked the design.
Apr 9th
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iPhone Apps I can't live without..
In no particular order.. Google Maps Mail Weather Facebook Twitter Reeder Remote Doodle Jump Google Mobile App Articles WolframAlpha Mint Instapaper Photoshop Mobile Pastebot
Apr 8th
March 2010
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Watch the Large Hadron Collider Live!
The world won’t end tomorrow, but if it does you can watch it happen live over the internet as the Large Hadron Collider begins its attempts to collide protons at 7 TeV (trillion electron volts). A live webcast of the first scheduled collisions will take place on March 30 2010, between the hours of 7.30 am and 5 pm (GMT), during which it is hoped two 3.5 TeV beams will be...
Mar 30th
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Mar 28th