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Pretty sure it was part of the initial, day one S3 release.

I do think they've tried to blur the lines-- their slogan for a while was "expertly crafted".

Nice work!

Are you running your own apt repositories?

I was just thinking about his anti-"audioblogging" manifesto the other day: http://www.idlewords.com/2004/08/an_audioblogging_manifesto....

I'm more concerned with the usage of Linux and Ubuntu (or even Ubuntu and Debian) as synonyms.

Yeah, the whole "how to install X on linux;apt-get install X" is asinine. Would almost be OK if they said "Ubuntu" instead of Linux, though.

Half true: alpha is the Twitter clone, but in theory, that's just one app of many built on the API. The many just never happened.

"A Minimalist Text Adventure"-- What would a maximalist text adventure look like?

A thousand startups and every newspaper have failed to topple craigslist-- but maybe their own over-litigiousness will (finally!) be the downfall.

Books in the same series, on Jeff Bezos: http://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Bezos-King-Amazon-Com-Techies/dp/... And Steve Jobs: http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Thinks-Different-Techies/d…