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Re:Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3 on Monday May 18, 2015 @09:22AM (#9564239)
Pretty sure it was part of the initial, day one S3 release.
Re:Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors on Friday March 06, 2015 @11:42PM (#9161018)
I do think they've tried to blur the lines-- their slogan for a while was "expertly crafted".
Re:A redesign of the Django websites on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:26AM (#8757794)
Nice work!
Are you running your own apt repositories?
Re:Pinboard Turns Five on Thursday July 10, 2014 @10:43AM (#8015120)
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.
Re:App.net State of the Union on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @03:08PM (#7706463)
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.
Re:“A Dark Room” game open-sourced on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:02PM (#5985905)
"A Minimalist Text Adventure"-- What would a maximalist text adventure look like?
Re:An Open Letter to Craig Newmark on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:36AM (#5983825)
A thousand startups and every newspaper have failed to topple craigslist-- but maybe their own over-litigiousness will (finally!) be the downfall.