Sai Charan

Bonus: Simultaneously scroll left and right files with overflow.

Dependencies: jQuery

Usage: Simply include jQuery in gitweb/gitweb.cgi (within the head tag).

Future work: Going by this thread on kerneltrap.org, 'side-by-side' diff appears to have been on the team's TODO list and never gotton around to being implemented. So, except for the simultaneous scrolling, I intend to port this to Perl and hope to get it integrated into Gitweb core. Simultaneous scrolling needs to be done in Javascript and the fact that external dependencies are frowned upon,

Note that we frown upon introducing extra dependencies for gitweb, unless they are optional, and best detected automatically.

scrolling needs to be handled separately in gitweb.js (the currently implementation depends on jQuery).

Screenshot:

Gist: https://gist.github.com/1274726

Richard Stallman wrote:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

When I first read it, I was shocked. Somehow, my respect and admiration for Steve, and the news of his demise seemed to confuse the whole thing. Perhaps, I thought, Stallman did not wait 'the appropriate amount of time' after Jobs' passing - but hey, what is the appropriate amount of time? As Gruber put it, '...life goes on.'

I could sense a fringe thought that I seemed to be actively fending away: that there was some truth in Stallman's words; and that he was being very respectful in what he said. But then, I could not place my thoughts - like I mentioned earlier, I seemed to be in a limbo of sorts.

And then there was light! Dave Winer, the guy credited with inventing RSS, first tweeted this

Stallman's epitaph for Jobs is appropriate and respectful. http://r2.ly/7f3u

and followed up with this. And I seem to agree - Stallman was right; and appropriately respectful too. Brilliant, well thought out & effectively communicating piece of writing from Dave.

To relate with the concluding paragraph from Stallman, it helps to be familiar with Apple's 'Think Different' ad campaign. A transcript of it is here: http://saicharan.in/blog/2011/10/06/heres-to-the-crazy-ones/

The Loop linked to a video on Youtube and titled it 'Steve Jobs narrates The Crazy Ones'. Here is a transcription (puctuation & emphasis is as I inferred, listening):

Here is to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes; the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them; glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them - because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we, see genius. Because people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

And the video:

In his commencement address at Stanford, Steve Jobs said (Stanford News)-

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

In the light of this, as @roshnimo notes, it feels a tad foolish to mourn. 