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Per user site-packages, and environment stew

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Chris Heisel

Per user site-packages, and environment stew – I really like the idea of packages, by default, be installed in ~/.local/python-X.X/site-packages

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An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Chris Heisel

An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers – Purely unscientific work from Slate, but I'll be interested in the results.

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Five features Git should steal from Mercurial

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Chris Heisel

Five features Git should steal from Mercurial – I've been using Mercurial for almost all my personal projects but I've been using git-hg and hosting them on GitHub (since it seems to be gaining mindshare). For now, it's been the … Continue reading →

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As the “mainstream” media goes, so do the bloggers

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Chris Heisel

As the "mainstream" media goes, so do the bloggers – Nieman Lab points out that the study used anything indexed by Google News as mainstream, so that actually includes Nieman Lab. I think the larger point of the study is … Continue reading →

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TechCrunch dubs Linux a ‘big ol’ bag of drivers’

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Chris Heisel

TechCrunch dubs Linux a ‘big ol’ bag of drivers’ – "The canonical example of failure in tech journalism is TechCrunch, a blog that once declared Google's MapReduce to be a system that 'reduced the links found on the web into … Continue reading →

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