Nice little gloss on the TAL take on software patenting.
Ironically, I only know about this applications (which I now plan to use) because it was taken out of the story and got a lot of press.
Combination example code for common things and tutorial.
There should be a better way of finding your R package than searching though a page of short descriptions of all 2800 package.s But there isn't.
I think that writing about a companies internally strategy is pretty risky but the idea that Google is putting its own interest over its users is an interesting idea that meshes pretty well with the whole antifeatures cocept that I've been throwing around.
A dozens tools to do the job poorly.
"RAID5 isn't sufficient redundancy anymore, you need RAID6."
"In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other’s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice — meaning the parties can’t come back to fight over the same patents — and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week."
Stet is a cool piece of software that was used in the GPLv3 process. I think there are better tools now, but it's nice that the code is now easily available online.
Some day, I'm going to want a script that does this. When that day comes, I hope I remember I bookemarked it here.
