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Submission + - The Inventor of Ramen, Momofuku Ando Dead at 96

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Walter Wart

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @02:16AM

Walter Wart writes: "The founder of Nissin Foods, Momofuku Ando is dead at the age of 96. He is recognized as the inventor of instant noodles, Staff of Life for geeks and starving students the world over."

Submission + - The birth of vi

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lanc

on Friday January 05, 2007 @06:00PM

lanc writes: "Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, contributor to BSD Unix, the UltraSparc technology, NFS and even Java, tells the story in an article at TheRegister about how he wrote vi and what the motives were. In the interview he says:

"It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow."

...and so my son begun The Holy Editor War."

Submission + - Is there room for another blogging platform?

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StephanTual

on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:44PM

StephanTual writes: "Now that Terapad.com is free and offers 2GB of space, as well as most features usually found in 3rd party packages, will Wordpress and 6apart integrate further features such as shopping cart and image gallery?"

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