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“Apple engineers make $89,000 a year, whereas Google engineers can buy four more Segways a year (pre-tax) with their $112,573 paycheck. Microsoft and Yahoo are closer to Google: both companies pay their engineers $105,000 a year.”
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The Wine team announces version 1.0 of their product – after 15, yes, 15 years of development.
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“LiquidPlanner, is specifically designed to account for unplanned events and delays. “
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HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages.
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“I often tell software companies that if they want to build developer community momentum they should look at the three legged strategy of the 37Signals posse.”
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“The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.”
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“In the “20 percent time” that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their beloved Macs. “
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Social News Site Reddit Open Sources itself.
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As Apple grows marketshare and keeps tight grip on 3rd party applications, can they wind up more of a monopoly than Microsoft ever was?
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“So already, thanks to Weird Al, my son has latched onto a great American freedom — the one to poke fun at whomever, especially ourselves.”
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“Anyone in France who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes the country a pioneer in combating internet piracy. “
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“A new service by 3Jam called SuperText is launching in private beta that detects when you are at your computer and lets you send and receive text messages for free. “
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Pictures telling the story of a mother whose son has cancer. Really moving.
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A cheat sheet for GIT, something I was playing with again tonight.
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