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So Google Buzz has come out. Unlike a certain other blogger, I don’t have very strong feelings about it. I don’t like the idea of buzz creeping up my inbox, but i can also turn it off, and turn off all the other stuff. So honestly, I do not care about it all that much. [...]

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So I have moved continents and am now in Pisa, Italy. I see the leaning tower everyday (yes, I do. While crossing one of the roads, if I look right, there it is :P!). Life is good, and a lot of fun. Made new friends, and had fun in general.
Now, what are my observations of [...]

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My irc client got disconnected.
And when i reconnected, my previous session had not disconnected yet.
so i became dhaval`
so then i get
* tglx idly wonders why the first derivative of dhaval is speaking up here
* You are now known as dhaval
* tglx wonders whether dhaval is the indefinite integral of dhaval’
* peterz reminds tglx about integration [...]

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At the risk of being hit over by NDTV’s legal team, let me add a disclaimer. I am not attacking Barkha Dutt. These are questons I have for Barkha Dutt after seeing the “We the people” on August 30th, 2009.
For sometime I have noticed (and this might be a perception I have and if it [...]

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guis are great — for multiplexing terminal windows
-Peter Zijlstra

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I don’t see chrome OS suceeding. Google is making the same mistake we have seen others make in the open source world.
The main complaint I have is that it stinks of NIH. From the google blogpost
“And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning [...]

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One of the best I have heard in a long time
“I will kill you. I will clone you and kill you and all your clones”
The author, well you know who you are

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I was going through a post by Uttaran and it reminded me of some incidents.
1. I was flying from Bangalore to Mumbai in a Kingfisher Airlines flight. Generally when I fly, after sitting at the airport, I want water. And I want lots of it. So I finished something like 2 bottles before I got [...]

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Random events…
The sighing friend’s college had an exhibition, and since I was doing nothing that saturday I decided to go over and checkout what these artsy types do. Turned out to be an eye opener. It was interesting to say the least, and some of the posters were strong, and while I am sure some [...]

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Thanks to tglx
1. The whip is one of the important maintainer tools. If stinking trout does not work, use whip
2.  A good maintainer never rejects his own patches.
3. A maintainer is good by definition
4.  Maintainers are lazy and therefor delegate the ugly work to contributors

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