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"After Murdoch accused Google, Microsoft, and others of "stealing" his company's content, he was asked why he just doesn't pull his Web sites from Google's search results. "I think we will," Murdoch responded. "But that's when we start charging."" On Monday morning, Google responded to Murdoch's quotes in a report by the British publication The Telegraph. "Publishers put their content on the Web because they want it to be found," Google said in a statement. "Very few choose not to include their material in Google News and Web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't." - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

CNET got the headline wrong, should have been "NewsCorp accelerates towards irrelevancy by clinging onto outmoded subscription revenue model" - Douglas from twhirl

Will I miss The Sun online? No. - Andy Croll

Apparently works on the Magic Mouse too - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

"This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to be released 18-24 months after 3.1) but allow Python 3.3 (assuming it is not released prematurely) to once again include language changes." - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

I could be missing some implicit sarcasm here, but...no we won't - Douglas from twhirl

"Apple wins because the guy who cares the most about user experience happens to run the show. And last I checked, humble wasn’t really a word you could use to describe him." - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

Then Rails burst onto the scene with a simple message: web development ought to be fun. In retrospect this seems like an obvious development: most geeks of my generation got into computers just because they’re fun. But the Rails community turned this on its head. Why should we spend so much time trying to build Big Serious Software when we can build small, fun, light tools that actually make money, too? Turns out that those who enjoy their job are actually more productive — fancy that! - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

If you get a 128/256-byte leak reported in Instruments on the Simulator with the responsible library being dyld, don't worry: The simulator has bugs related to singletons and llvm stuff that are incorrectly reported by Instruments. Always check your leaks on the device itself. - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

benchmarks are here: http://samsoff.es/post... - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

I knew Apple had to be using something like that. Push notifications are in JSON, for one. - Chu Yeow

Ah ok I didn't even know there was a second framework, was going to go with TouchJSON. - arunthampi

"A skunkworks project often operates with a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects. These projects are often undertaken in secret with the understanding that if the development is successful then the product will be designed later according to the usual process." - arunthampi from Bookmarklet

Common term in US, also typically goes hand in hand with being massively and undetectably overbudget - Gary Theis from iPhone