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>If you want to work in an environment full of rowanmannings, that is your prerogative I have worked in an environment with one rowanmanning in it. It was awes

>If you want to work in an environment full of rowanmannings, that is your prerogative I have worked in an environment with one rowanmanning in it. It was awesome. A more open-minded, funny, smart and generous guy you couldn't hope to meet. More to the point, he was one of the best coders any of us had ever worked with. A company full of rowanmannings would therefore be a chilled out place where we'd learn from each other while having a laugh and turning out enough quality code to crush an army of pizza-fuelled dinosaur brogrammers waving their false-victimhood like a banner.

temphn 13y ago
Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_nature_publishi.html http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_n... Boycotting the Nature Publishing Group The Nature Publishing Group publishes not only the prestigious journal Nature, but also many others. When this company bought Scientific American, it raised the institutional subscription price seven-fold. Now they are insisting on quadrupling the fees for 67 journals to which the University of California subscribes. Right now, we pay them an average of $4,465 per year for each journal we subscribe to. After the increase, this would soar to $17,479 per year. In response, the University of California is considering a system-wide boycott of the Nature Publishing Group — for example, cancelling subscriptions to all their journals. Rowan Manning works for a gang of monopolistic rent-seekers who currently have the scientific community over a barrel. His salary comes from a closed-access model which is soon to be obsolete. Thus "cutting-edge" technology is actually highlighted as a fail! https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule/expectations.js#L6 https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule...
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  Beautiful. Thank you for this reply.

temphn 13y ago

Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_nature_publishi.html http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_n... Boycotting the Nature Publishing Group The Nature Publishing Group publishes not only the prestigious journal Nature, but also many others. When this company bought Scientific American, it raised the institutional subscription price seven-fold. Now they are insisting on quadrupling the fees for 67 journals to which the University of California subscribes. Right now, we pay them an average of $4,465 per year for each journal we subscribe to. After the increase, this would soar to $17,479 per year. In response, the University of California is considering a system-wide boycott of the Nature Publishing Group — for example, cancelling subscriptions to all their journals. Rowan Manning works for a gang of monopolistic rent-seekers who currently have the scientific community over a barrel. His salary comes from a closed-access model which is soon to be obsolete. Thus "cutting-edge" technology is actually highlighted as a fail! https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule/expectations.js#L6 https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule...

aclevernickname 13y ago
Beautiful. Thank you for this reply.