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Looks like RepRap is already self replicating: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

For a while now I've thought it would make sense to create 'relevant trends' for users - take the people you follow and the people they follow, and generate 10 trending topics From those people's tweets. Trending topics would become so much more useful.

Definitely what I've seen from the applicant's side as well with regards to the Github link. I was told that I got the phone screen for my current job because of it. Before adding it to my resume I hardly had interviews for an entire year.

I'm surprised more people don't have it on there.

A friend and I had a conversation about this phenomenon a while back that he called a 'matrix moment' - referencing Neo's "Whoah, I know Kung Fu!" line.

We both had similar experiences as we learned to program, the most vivid one being OOP - it went from practically no understanding to all of a sudden being completely able to understand what and why.

I agree, I feel like stunts like this make all of open source look bad. If you want money or attribution, don't wait until someone hits the jackpot with your free lib that doesn't require attribution and call the out publicly.

I don't exactly see how this is great news. While some may enjoy seeing Apple squirm, what about the consumers who prefer the iPhone over any android offerings?

I just realized the other day that you can drag a tab off of visor and use it as a regular terminal window in case you need to look at two terminals at once.

You might want to check out Visor - http://visor.binaryage.com/ makes your terminal a roll-down fps-like console, and can handle all the tabs as well. I've found it very useful to solve the exact problem you're having.

Congratulations Steve! Great to see progress being made =)

Have to agree. I just got myself one and it has been a lot of fun so far

That's definitely what I got out of reading bill bryson's brief history of nearly everything. The people involved in most of our scientific discoveries are incredibly fascinating

Funny, I was playing around with scraping bookmarks off delicious a while ago with a rails app.

I totally agree. I recently read Steve Wozniak's autobiography and Richard Stallman's biography and came to the same realization. It is pretty amazing that a lot of these people responsible for where we are with computers and the internet are all still alive and are potentially people you can actually have conversations with.

Yeah, this seems kind of silly. I think of facebook friends as people I might have met once, not people I would trust to add information to my profile.

The thought of going running with one of the newest gen android phones in my pocket makes me cringe. My first thoughts when I saw this thing was that if it could replace my nano+armband+wired headphones it would be fantastic.

Got the same error, so I can't tell which video it was supposed to be. But it looks like this video uses something like it: Chairlift - Evident Utensil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzXVeugvYc

Do you think with all the screen scraping tools we're seeing come out these days, that there will be a lot more of "taking a crappy UX and turning it into an awesome one"? Not talking about to the heights that Hipmunk have taken it, but maybe somewhere between Hipmunk and all the different instant search tools we've seen.

ENFP checking in.

Been doing this test every year or two for about 6 years now and has by far been the one I find the most accurate. I'm actually pretty interested to see how this survey turns out as well.

Anyone have any predictions on what the distribution might look like?

Yeah, really, here in Pittsburgh $2k/month is enough to live pretty comfortably.

Wow, I wasn't really even thinking about recent graduates not knowing how to use the software particular to their industry.

I'm worried the article may be right, that there needs to be a massive re-training effort or there is going to be a whole generation of people spending the second half of their lives jobless or underemployed. I imagine the only thing keeping it from being a more pronounced effect year round is big corporation's typically slow adoption of new technology.

I've been bouncing an idea around in my head related to this for a little while now. While I don't think it's as specific as 'no engineers qualified to fill 50k/year job' I have a feeling that in general it is lack of computer skills that is keeping these people unemployed.

There is a huge amount of the population - in America at least - who cannot handle the most basic of tasks on their computers without assistance or a large waste of time. Not that I'm blaming them, as they got along just fine (though less efficiently than their more computer literate co-workers) before the downturn, but now that they have been laid off and are looking for new jobs, the employers willing to hire people who don't have the basics down are few and far between.

What the whole HFCS scaremongering has done for me is raise my awareness of what is actually in the foods I'm eating. I can agree that people probably see health benefits cutting out HFCS because it probably cuts out other highly processed ingredients. Just the other day I was looking at bread ingredients and all the ones without HFCS (which weren't very many) also had the best ingredients all around.

Hm ok, didn't think of battery life...but as I have a droid right now, I'm in the habit of plugging my phone in whenever possible.

Is there any reason why this + the new iPod touch + Skype/google voice wouldn't be equivalent to an iPhone that is $60 cheaper per month?

It was mine too, and I had that same thought a few days ago, apparently e works fine in wine