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October 2006



Linus on proprietary software (BK)

2006.10.19 Thu 10:03 P GMT-07
There is an interesting thread in the bazaar-ng mailing list going on right now. (Over a year ago I blogged about my take on the bitkeeper debacle.) Anyway, to make a long story short, Linus (of Linux/git fame) said the following concerning BitKeep
Category: python linux open source
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Alex Martelli and Python 2.5

2006.10.13 Fri 9:08 A GMT-07
I was able to attend Alex's presentation of Python 2.2 through 2.5 last night. Alex can be a passionate speaker at times, and is very knowledgeable. He went over most of the changes in 2.5 in pretty good detail. Part of the fun of listening to A
Category: python open source

youtube and google

2006.10.13 Fri 8:55 A GMT-07
I heard from a friend last night that youtube broke even in the last quarter and was profitable last month. I had always heard that they were shelling out millions for bandwith. Interesting, so they actually had a business plan and were successful
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The good and bad of python code

2006.10.09 Mon 9:22 P GMT-07
I recently made a list of things to do to improve ones python coding abilities for a co-worker. One of the suggestions I gave him (besides writing actual python code) was to read other's code (hopefully it's good code). So my question to you python
Category: python open source
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Unwanted marketing (removal with gimp)

2006.10.08 Sun 10:22 P GMT-07
A few years back we attended a budgeting seminar given by a wealthy Palo Altoan lawyer and his wife. I don't remember much, but I remember his wife saying that she would never buy anything with a prominent logo on it. It was an interesting idea, th
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