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It was definitely a major thing. But in this discussion, the main points we even focused on about the characteristics of open source when defining it were the same as the FSF: "Whe…

> I realise that this is intentionally a very highly-compressed version of history, but Author here. As you say, it's a highly-compressed version of history. Getting into the finer…

For Anton Mirgorodchenko, a Ukrainian refugee born with cerebral palsy, supported eye tracking hardware is too expensive, and speech-to-text isn’t an option—it doesn’t understand h…

Ahh, good call. They're both on there now.

Thanks, I really enjoyed writing it! And yeah, as I talked to everyone for the article, it really seemed that minimalism was relative to where you were, and could often show up the…

I dunno, do you?

Thanks for the much-more-useful explanation here. I thought the question was a complaint about verbing a name, not being unfamiliar.

Author here. I really enjoyed diving into this topic and interviewing people. Minimalism in technology has a long history, and it's as important today as it's ever been. A favorite…

Author here. Yep, someone's name, verb-ified. I fully get the pet peeve against this sorta thing, but we went there nonetheless. :)

The distinction 3taps makes is that it doesn't scrape content from Craigslist but from search results from google and bing.

The whitepages case is exactly the one EFF's attorney Kurt Opsahl referred to when I spoke to him about copyright law and facts.

Oh yeah. For when you really want to turn "hitting Techmeme" into a game. :)

Don't forget the leaderboard... http://www.crunchbase.com/bloggerboard/tech/authors

Agreed. I still hand type most URLs and weird ones I use bookmarks for...but it's more and more rare that I hand type anything more than the basic domain...anything with an actual …

I wrote it after the session, actually...which I was unable to attend because I went to the damn press briefing. Alas. I didn't find out until later when speaking with someone from…