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akshaymon A Tmux Crash Course (2011)

Totally irrelevant, but this is from 2011.

akshaymon Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes

This is surprising. Not that it sold out after 10 minutes, but that Google didn't handle the load well.

I wonder why - surely they expected this (if nothing else, given the performance of the phone in other markets).

akshaymon Thank you Apple

I think it's interesting to point out that this is Rob Pike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

akshaymon Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services

Your*

Not sure about this, but I think it's what you mean. I googled "node broke", and didn't come up with meaningful results, so I assume it's "Your". Correct me if I'm wrong!

akshaymon Tetration

This is a fantastic article on "big numbers" (and discusses tetration):

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

(I think someone has posted it to HN before, which is why I am leaving it as a comment)

akshaymon Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

This is an interesting article as well I think: http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-...