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So true! - S Anand

This is the beginning of the end for software estimation. Good riddance -- to the illusion of control. - S Anand

A YQL Table to execute multiple YQL queries as a single YQL query and return the results as an array. - S Anand

I didn't know this: "Given that Pixar/Disney obviously named the movie intentionally as a challenge to search engines..." - S Anand

Good one: "There’s nothing much on the Net that’s without precedent in spoken language. What’s new is that written discourse is becoming less like oration and more like conversation. It’s not clear that this is bad." - S Anand

I can just see this happening at my house in a year's time. - S Anand

In effect, swapping your services ... (means) that if you don’t receive income, you don’t have to pay tax on it. - S Anand

Ad revenue in the long run is higher than sales revenue - S Anand

AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. That's $465,000 a minute. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste. Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG's 2008 losses). - S Anand

via http://twitter.com/thej - S Anand

Storage at 7p per GB. Cheaper than Amazon S3. - S Anand

The real reason for Kindle: mobile web access. - S Anand

I was able to locate someone at our apartment complex letting out parking space. Guess I can have guests park there for a while :-) - S Anand

Pity Georgia and Lucida Sans aren't on the list. I'm not likely to add many ads until these become available. - S Anand

Wish I could go... (am hosting a party same time) - S Anand

A (relatively) concise guide to the differences between Python 2 and Python 3 - S Anand

Exactly the features I was hoping for! - S Anand

If it doesn't matter to the web page what the mime type is, why not go with something that the browsers display? - S Anand

Quote: For anyone who is wondering, “How can I contribute?” my answer is this: Start by designing a business plan for a social business. Decide which social problem you’d most like to tackle. Figure out what resources you can use to address it. Develop a plan for applying these resources efficiently and effectively. Then try turning that plan into reality. The social business you create based on your plan may be small, but if it works, it could end up being replicated in thousands of locations—and so end up changing the world. - S Anand

Day 1: Obama moves Whitehouse.gov content to Creative Commons license. - S Anand

"That kind of “who got the big scoop” question was a big deal... But you know who really cares about that kind of thing? Journalists, that’s who. Normal people can’t even remember most of the time where they heard something or saw something first, nor do they care. I don’t think that twittering, flickering, etc., will replace traditional news coverage. But, it can be a great aid for the traditional media channels." - S Anand

Easiest introduction to monads I've read. - S Anand

Extraordinary. Content is being completely commoditised away from education. - S Anand

To think that this technology is TWO YEARS old! - S Anand

Ambient awareness. I finally get it. Facebook's made it a lot easier to keep "aware" of my friends. - S Anand

Interesting response to question 23. - S Anand

Great work! Could you try fitting it into 15 min, though? I suspect a lot of people will have trouble staying on for 45 min... - S Anand

The real-life incident that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's "The Rope" - S Anand

"This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours." - S Anand

"Maybe the future of music recording lies in reproducing performers and not recording them," says Bocko. - S Anand