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Google Launches Google Code
ibjhb writes "Google is at it again and has launched Google Code. It appears to be "Google's place for Open Source software". " Can't say that I'm surprised that our old friend (and former Slashdot Author) Chris DiBona is working on this one. They have links to several open source projects, as well as to Google API information.
Freshmeat just got a 'best if used by' date.
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What next?
Google Personals?
Google Quotes Database?
Google Car Insurance?
coredumper: Gives you the ability to dump cores from programs when it was previously not possible.
Gee, I've always been pretty good at that!
Well, I guess we'll be seeing alot of duplicate projects posted there.
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I hadn't seen a Google story in a couple of days, I was starting to suffer withdrawal.
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I didn't know he was CowboyNeal!
EagerEyes.org: Visualization and Visual Communication
That's pretty much the opposite of the problem I usually have.
In other news, slashdot announces new moderation level. '-1 Only funny the first time you hear it'
I guess they can expect a nastygram from Stallman any day now.
"We're going to feature a new one every week or so and we'll send a fabulous, always fashionable, t-shirt to the maintainers as a small way of saying thank you!" anyone seen the pic. where a dud is holdig a poster that say "I well do html for food"
Uh oh...
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
Apache, which has had a grand total of one article in all of 2005.
What? You mean there was no dupe for Apache yet?
Shit editors, what are you doing!?!
I'm pretty hooked on the Picasa photo organizer from Picasa. It's only missing one thing: an extension to upload photos to your Flickr account.
I'd like to see some work done on this.
Thanks Russ!
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
This is a scaled-back version of the approach taken by the best pure R&D labs: Hire very smart people and then don't give them any specific assignments beyond "Do something new and interesting."
Given the large number of major thing discovered by pure accident . Maybe you would be better off hiring a bunch of incompetent idiots and carefully watching what happens when you tell them do something difficult.
http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/
maybe not the type of news they'd like, tho. :-)
hmm...
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