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The market thinks Qt's owner Nokia made a bad choice: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOK&t=5d&l=on&z=... Nokia should quietly spin Qt off to avoid making more enemies. IBM beat Ap…

Petty hatred? Microsoft made a lot of real enemies on the way up. Microsoft drove a lot of people out of business. Microsoft funded the massive expansion of H1B visas in the late 1…

Well, it's not actually a genome, it's just 1 million snp locations. Genome is about 3.1 GB. For humans, at least.

The planet after Neptune?

Actually, the best time to be a poor, menial worker was the late 1960s. Real minimum wage peaked and there was less competition for the bottom dollar. http://oregonstate.edu/instru…

With federal debt at 66 year high, there's a problem Politicians, regardless of label, seem to kick the can down the road. They spend their money on their friends ("necessary infra…

Ariana pulled a Steve Case on 'em! In related news, AOL down 3.2% in late trading. Market says "bad move".

See if you can install a Linux distro.

Purchasing power parity in local currency?

Egyptian Division? You mean like ... Mubarak vs. the Protesters?

Maybe interfacing to javascript libraries has replaced actual new javascript development and people search for, for instance, "jquery" instead of javascript.

Three things struck me: 1) The persistence of C. Looks like it will remain "the glue" between the machine and "higher level" operations for the next decade and beyond. It's strong …

It would be unwise to submit to vendor lock-in.

Wow. There wasn't a baby boom, it was more of an earlier depression/war bust.

Properly using vi , especially the macros feature, will save you from carpal tunnel syndrome. Typing "set -o vi" first thing in bash will save your sanity.