Andrey forwarded me a link to last.fm robots.txt file, which, as many other robots.txt files, forbids search engine bots to access certain areas of the site. This one however does a little bit of more. For machines, it serves as the reminder of Three Rules of Robotics by Isaac Asimov. For humans, it provides a tiny bit of geek humor. Here is a screenshot, in case it disappears over time.
Pingdom published some statistics on top country populations and Internet users. Nothing particularly shocking, but interesting none the less.
Via this rant, I learned about this report, which shows who contributes the most to the Gnome project. I knew that Red Hat was doing a lot of Gnome, but I never knew how much it actually was.
Red Hat are the biggest contributor to the GNOME project and its core dependencies. Red Hat employees have made almost 17% of all commits we measured, and 11 of the top 20 GNOME committers of all time are current or past Red Hat employees. Novell and Collabora are also on the podium.
Way to go, Red Hat!
Sometimes I find wisdom in the most unexpected places. Not that Matt’s blog is such a place, but I wasn’t expecting to find anything that enlightening in the comments to such a simplistic blog post – about centered backgrounds for Twitter. The quote that I think more people should know is:
it’s hard to anticipate the complexity of something you didn’t write
Here is a beautiful screenshot for too.
A few times I found myself in the situation that I couldn’t even explain the complexity of a change that seemed so simple from the outside. And for some time now, when I hear the question “Why can’t they just do it? It’s so simple”, I have the answer ready – “They probably have more than one good reason for not doing it”.