Marcelo Toledo

It’s growing the number of unsolicited calls I received lately, once I went to a night club and they asked for my phone number, biggest mistake of my life, seems like they are going to call me every weekend. I’ve just created a contact called Spam in my iPhone, now I just want a replica of that website that stores spammers phones and a tools to sync with iPhone. Save us Phoneman!

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A compilation of classical computer science texts, from people including:

• Brian W. Kernighan
• Donald E. Knuth
• Ken Thompson
• Dennis Ritchie
• Sergey Brin
• William Henry Gates III
• Paul Graham
• Peter Norvig
• …

Source: http://e7l3.org/classics.html

Idea: http://www.tellesfera.com/?p=27

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I grew up in the middle of hackers, people that learned assembly before even speak, intelligent gentleman seeking the understandings of computers and systems, real computer lovers. Being in front of a computer 20 hours a day couldn’t be considered work, we grew, the first one of us started working, then another one, until one day everyone was well employed and starting a business life.

I always though that we were the beginning of many similar generations, that in ten years we would see ten times more hackers doing brilliant things for the world, but I was wrong, months ago I had a position for a senior C/UNIX programmer and the number of candidates was a shame, seems like people are much more interested in visual basic, delphi and java, and it’s not because there are not many positions available, ten years ago we had almost none.

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Click the image to see Dow Jones falling 10.2% in 15 days.

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Around fifteen days in the new year and all I can see is red candles in my graphics, reading my rss today was horrible, all markets around the world falling crazy, JPMorgan revenue, 34% less then predicted, Citi US$ 9.8 bilion loss, Goldman recommends selling Citi papers, Merrill Lynch reported a second straight quarterly loss after writing down US$ 11.5 billion of subprime mortgages and bond. Like we say around here, in a nasty fall, you’ll not pass the ground, buckle up.

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Inkscape started using Launchpad, this is one of that moments where an image speaks better then a thousand words. Mark has more details about it.

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This chart shows the market share of the six more important operating systems, after them you could see, SunOS 0.01%, HP-UX 0.00%, AIX 0.00%, FreeBSD 0.00%, SCP 0.00%, SCO 0.00%, OpenBSD 0.00%, OpenVMS 0.00% and NetBSD 0.00%. People should be careful interpreting this chart, all the data come from real users , 160M monthly, accessing important websites.

Linux has been growing it’s market share monthly, started the year with ~.40% growth and closed with almost .70%. Very slowly Windows is loosing it’s market share to other operating systems, started with 93% and finished with 91.7%. Hype products came from 0 to 100 in a very short period. Almost 10% of the market share is dominated by UNIX like operating systems.

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