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I've always thought that the GNU date command captured this confusion well. On Linux, if you run `info date` and go to "input date formats": Our units of temporal measurement, from…

Task Warrior was mentioned http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596158 a while back on HN.

The article is infoq is more balanced http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins The fact that MS may abandon Silverlight and other Windows technologies is far more significa…

Interesting point from the article: A legal expert on intellectual property cases, who declined to be named, asserted that when pictures are filed both in the complaint and in sepa…

Finally a use for QR Codes

"The definition of groups is... everyone inside the group knows who else is in the group" This is a slightly narrow definition, the visibility of a group should be an attribute. Da…

Evolution of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

Apple don't file patents, they file magic

Just searched for "Amazon App Store", it's way too early in the morning (in ireland) for freaky results http://i.imgur.com/2W3UK.png

The amazing free market, the duct tape of neo-liberalism. It's kind of a cool idea but seriously?

Depending on what you need to do something like Appcelerator http://www.appcelerator.com might be of some use. Dunno if they are planning on Windows Phone 7 compatibility.

Maybe you could do a types of sausages eaten at lunchtime or colour of buckets used by HN users or fight club rules... http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/1/18.…

The Unix Haters' Handbook is worth looking up. I think it is out of print but the PDF is available for download. My favourite from USENET is cleaning out .o files after compiling C…