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	<description>Bits of software inspired by little Ahren and Tanish</description>
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		<title>Google social search brouhaha</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://code.ahren.org/?p=1517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago Google announced a change to Search, awkwardly named (as is their wont) Google Plus your World, and the Google first responders have responded with suitable outrage (as is their wont). For a good rundown of all the noise read this TPM post. &#8220;Google just broke it&#8217;s search engine&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s Farhad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No RIP for RIM</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/no-rip-for-rim</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BlackBerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smartphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone and his dog has now opined on how RIM &#8211; maker of Blackberry mobile phones, once standard accessory with power suits &#8211; can reverse its current death march. Abandon the quaint co-CEO setup. Run Windows Phone OS. So on. The suggestions are plenty. And now there is talk of acquisition. Better, I think, Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You cannot fork a child</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/you-cannot-fork-a-child</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am terrible at metaphors but I am going to ignore that and plough ahead with the one implied in the title of this post, and equate a software product to a baby (highly original, I know). The occasion is a post by Adam Martin lamenting that GitHub is killing Open Source. How? Like this: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vi and Emacs</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/vi-and-emacs</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emacs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://code.ahren.org/?p=1498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Unix fossil like me then you no doubt have a religious position on the greatest editor of all time. Either your mind is wired the right way and you appreciate the beauty of Vi or you were adopted early on by a band of baboons and prefer the finger gymnastics of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bizarre world of Android</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-bizarre-world-of-android</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-bizarre-world-of-android#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://code.ahren.org/?p=1477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We already knew that Microsoft makes more from Android than it does from Windows Phone 7: Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. It also turns out that Google makes more off iOS than it does on Android: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trouble with non-GPL open licenses</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-trouble-with-non-gpl-open-licenses</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-trouble-with-non-gpl-open-licenses#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marco Arment is understandably peeved that Business Insider is exploiting Marco&#8217;s generous license to lift and reproduce his writings wholesale. Regarding the license, he writes: Business Insider’s mass replication of my writing is the only downside that has ever made me reconsider my Creative Commons license. If they’ve had any beneficial effect whatsoever, I haven’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-real-steve-jobs</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-real-steve-jobs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced his resignation from Apple. This has prompted an outpouring of touchingly sentimental stories from those who have interacted with the man. John Gruber has been collecting a bunch of them at his blog, from which I have reproduced a few links: As a 12-Year-Old Kid, Allen Paltrow Met Steve Jobs I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new design/experience: taking Chris Wiggins to heart</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/googles-new-designexperience-taking-chris-wiggins-to-heart</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/googles-new-designexperience-taking-chris-wiggins-to-heart#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ahren.org/code/?p=1440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has progressed since the days of 41 shades of blue. At least in the user interface of their products. I had no insight into whether this reflects a change in the underlying process. But now there is some news on that front. Yesterday Chris Wiggins (Creative Director at Google) made a post to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Fotopedia &#8220;the Wikipedia of photos&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/is-fotopedia-the-wikipedia-of-photos</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/is-fotopedia-the-wikipedia-of-photos#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fotopedia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Up in northern New Jersey is Pyramid Mountain, a trek up which yields a pretty amazing sight: Tripod Rock, a &#8220;glacial erratic&#8221; &#8211; a 160 ton boulder, to put it in simpler terms &#8211; abandoned by the receding Wisconsin glacier. What makes this massive rock amazing is that it is perched atop three comparatively tiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is MobileMe supposed to do?</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/what-is-mobileme-supposed-to-do</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/what-is-mobileme-supposed-to-do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 16:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via MacApper: “In Fortune’s story, Lashinsky says Steve Jobs summoned the entire MobileMe team for a meeting at the company’s on-campus Town Hall, accusing everyone of “tarnishing Apple’s reputation.” He told the members of the team they “should hate each other for having let each other down”, and went on to name new executives on [...]]]></description>
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