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klocksibon First look at Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)

The new UI looks a lot like KDE...

Psst, he was being sarcastic.

...okay? Neat, I guess.

klocksibon Google Chrome, Chromium, Gears, V8 & Blob API

This author could have written this article about any of the current crop of browsers. I mean, tabs, status bar, and history--wow, no other browsers ever had those! Oh, wait..

klocksibon Ask YC: What's your day job?

I test videogames.

klocksibon Coffee shop programmer

I'm assuming it wasn't even classic Jingle Bells. How long did you listen to Jingle Bell Rock before you threw your Coffee at the barista and jumped out the window?

klocksibon The Y Combinator

Pretty good write up. The only part I did not care for was the pompous: "[...]I think the reason is that he wanted to attract the kind of programmers who were smart enough to have heard about the Y combinator"... The author has confused ignorance with intelligence.

klocksibon Neal Stephenson: Programmer as a writer. Do it right the first time

You're HURD's biggest proponent, aren't you?

klocksibon Michael Crichton predicted Mass Media's current fate in 1993

They’re moving in herds. They do move in herds.

klocksibon Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?

I urge you to read 'True Names' by Vernor Vinge.

klocksibon The 8 Essential Tools for Programmers

Even more strange, he says plain text then says he uses markup languages in them...

klocksibon Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?

Hmmm, here's a list of books I really like:

Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ by Frenck

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by McKusick/Neville-Neil