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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
Dear Dr. Stallman, Thank you for coming to Penn and giving a talk on A Free Digital Society; it was an honor meeting you. You mentioned that what you expected of us was to help the Free Software Foundation however we could; I'd like to take you up on that and offer both yourself and the FSF the following advice: Stop…
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Open Source (Almost) Everything
When Chris and I first started working on GitHub in late 2007, we split the work into two parts. Chris worked on the Rails app and I worked on Grit, the first ever Git bindings for Ruby. After six months of development, Grit had become complete enough to power GitHub during our public launch of the site and we were…
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Firefox 5 is now officially released
Everyone deserves access to the internet — your language should never be a barrier. That’s why — with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world — we make Firefox available in more than 90 languages.
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JQuery 1.7 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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JQuery 1.6 released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Nvidia Opens CUDA Platform, Releases Compiler Source Code
NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure. Developers can create or extend programming languages with support for GPU acceleration using the NVIDIA Compiler SDK .
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We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling
At Browserling we are huge open-source fans and we have open-sourced 90 node.js modules! That's right! 90 node.js modules. All written from scratch. We're crazy! Edit: Now we've open-sourced several hundred! Here is the complete list of all the modules together with their brief descriptions. We have published all…
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
Some thoughts about the people who use the name of VLC media player to spread adware/spyware while infringing the VideoLAN ‘s intellectual property and brand…
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Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released
[02 Nov 2011] DebConf12 Nicaragua dates confirmed [08 Oct 2011] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.3 released [01 Oct 2011] Updated Debian GNU/Linux 5.0: 5.0.9 released [18 Sep 2011] Upcoming point releases and call for test [16 Aug 2011] Debian Community celebrates its 18th birthday [30 Jul 2011] DebConf11 ends as another…
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The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developing contributor
The last communication I had from George was in September 2008. He had helped with tons of little improvements in ayttm, like auto-complete, spell check, etc in addition to affecting the big changes. He is responsible for the rewrite of the msn plugin too. I tried getting back in touch in October for his suggestions…
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JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Pypy wants you - now's the time to start contributing to Pypy
If you ever considered contributing to PyPy, but never did so far, this is a good moment to start! :-) Recently, we merged the fast-forwa...
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Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark
I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so back in order to get a more recent version of SCons. 11.04 dropped me into the new “Unity” GNOME interface. There may be people in the world for whom Unity is a good idea, but none of them are me. The look is garish and ugly, and it takes twice as many clicks as it did before to…