parislemon:

Farhad Manjoo for Slate:

If you study the PC industry over the past five years, you find only one company that had the means, motive, and opportunity. Apple killed the netbook, more or less single-handedly, and we should all be grateful for it.

Turns out, there were only two problems with netbooks:

1) Using them was a shitty experience.

2) Selling them was a shitty business.

Shocking that they ultimately failed. (And that Apple was right for not getting into the business in the first place.)

parislemon:

pudjam666:

Here’s a clever way to mass-unsubscribe from spam, marketing emails, newsletters, and other stuff you don’t want clogging your inbox.

  1. In Gmail, do a search for “label:inbox unsubscribe OR email preferences OR subscribed OR newsletter” (without the quotes)
  2. Select (checkbox) the emails you want…

Brilliant.

Great idea!

I think this book or something similar is turning into an essential for every programmer these days

One of my favourite Mongo resources. Makes using Mongo a piece of cake :-)

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A good alternative to the built in ruby functions URI.escape and URI.unescape.

Not that it does anything differently.