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Pretty sure it was part of the initial, day one S3 release.


I do think they've tried to blur the lines-- their slogan for a while was "expertly crafted".


Nice work!


Are you running your own apt repositories?


I was just thinking about his anti-"audioblogging" manifesto the other day: http://www.idlewords.com/2004/08/an_audioblogging_manifesto....


In case you are at the office or just want to get through it in less that four minutes: http://idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt


It’s simply not the full experience without sitting through it running on while the choir swells.


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.


>In this article, we are going to see a good list of Web Design / Development tools for Linux. Additionally, the installation steps given for each tool are specially for Ubuntu, however it should also work on Debian operating system.

I think most people using Debian should understand the concept of root and what they need to do to install software using apt-get. If not they should be using Ubuntu.


I'm more concerned with the usage of Linux and Ubuntu (or even Ubuntu and Debian) as synonyms.


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.


You could almost say the same thing about Twitter. Their web and mobile apps are just one of many apps built on their API.


Indeed many people including Dalton were saying that from 2007-2011ish when the Twitter API was wide open and speculation about it's potential as plumbing ran rampant. However over the last few years, it became increasing clear that the contingent of people inside Twitter who saw it as new and amazing plumbing for the next generation of applications were losing, and the contingent who saw Twitter as a media company selling advertising with a fully controller and branded user experience were the ones who won out.

Anyone building an app on top of Twitter for anything other than personal or experimental use is a fool. Unfortunately for anyone building on top of App.net, it doesn't have the users to make it broadly interesting or significantly profitable.


"A Minimalist Text Adventure"-- What would a maximalist text adventure look like?


Dunno, but if you are a frequent online gamer you probably know that 'minimialism' is a frequently used tag over at Kongregate and that there many other minimalist games that are not text adventures.

Notable examples:

Momiga (http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rogerup/momiga) - one button, one dot

Midas (http://www.kongregate.com/games/wanderlands/midas)

This is not a minimalist game (http://stormalligator.com/this-is-not/)

Pretentious game (http://www.kongregate.com/games/keybol/pretentious-game)


Dwarf Fortress?

I guess it's not really a text adventure, but still...


Dwarf Fortress is probably a textbook example of anti-minimalism.


Any of the later (or heck, even the earlier) Infocom text adventures are far from minimalistic. And contemporary interactive fiction written with Inform quite complex. Far more so than this.



ed?


Zork?


The Matrix? ("Blonde, brunette, redhead...")


Nowadays, I imagine Cypher playing Dwarf Fortress in that scene. "Blonde, brunette, redhead dwarfs..."


A thousand startups and every newspaper have failed to topple craigslist-- but maybe their own over-litigiousness will (finally!) be the downfall.



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