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Archive for April 2008

Links for 28 Apr — 29 Apr

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Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should
Hans Reiser found guilty of 1st degree murder
Remember those idiots who killed that Goth girl? Guess what happened to ‘em.
Napster Killing Metallica Considering Radiohead-Style Release - Fucking Hypocrites

Links for 27 Apr — 28 Apr

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Steve Yegge confuses April 28 with April 1
http://www.dotfiles.com/files/6/466_dot-emacs
The Stump Window Manager
Git from the Bottom Up
Because African-American Children Use Computers Too! [pic]
Example of a really bad UI — How many steps does it take to exit the Assassins Creed PC Game?

Links for 27 Apr

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BBC NEWS | It is a paradox. Along with the guns there is a tranquillity and civility about American life of which most British people can only dream.”
Jef Raskin: UI designers who use the word “intuitive” are full of it. The word’s real meaning is “familiar.”

Links for 25 Apr — 26 Apr

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I’m Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass
Knuth loves Ubuntu and disses code-reuse (Interview)

Links for 25 Apr

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Unix Find Tutorial
Stevey’s Blog Rants: Settling the OS X focus-follows-mouse debate
Yegge on autofocus on OS X

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Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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