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Jamie Zawinski, one of the original Netscape developers.
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I've never done any type of film making. I suspect from my attempts at photography and writing (and my reading about them), that the first, most cost effective investment would be hiring a professional editor to put the final film together
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I have seen that one discussed often enough on forums, I believe it is the "Apple Fanboy Android".
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"So what has gone wrong? Why aren’t agile techniques scaling? Takes no genius to diagnose that problem: agile, trying to scale up from the bottom, collides with the top-down-imposed conventional corporate habits of death marches, rigid hier
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Culture hacking, reloaded(esr.ibiblio.org)
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - - Charles Beard
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That's the sort of thing that happens when semantics meets mathematics; Swizec screwed up his statement of the problem. Swizec and the people agreeing that the answer is yes are confusing the problem's literal statement with the common sta
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The big problem with Jupiter is its particularly intense magnetic field and Van Allen radiation belt. It is going to be too dangerous to approach without a breakthrough in radiation shielding for a long time yet. On the other hand, once w
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From one of the featured comments: >Yeah, if it were up to me, 10% of our time would be spent on training-- teaching, learning, research, etc. But the higher-ups will often veto that, because on paper, it looks like it takes them 10% lo
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I thought his discussion of the Linux Hater's Blog, http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=628 , was even better. ADDED: Also the Linux Hater's Blog is still going if only intermittently, http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/
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The really scary bit is that most people still support the police, and will probably continue to do so no matter what the police do.
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As the post admitted, few supplements have benefit once you are eating a well-balanced diet. As he put it, "these are best used to fill any deficiencies." Though it is sad to see what amounts to an infomercial voted up to the number 2 spo
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"Aim high, you may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off." Mercedes Lackey, I forget which book, but I think it was Tarma that said it.
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The larger the team, the more overhead is needed, no matter what system you are using. The real problem is that scrum doesn't scale as efficiently as more structured management systems, so the overhead grows much faster than in most other
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This article demonstrates a problem I have seen with many companies over decades. Even TI didn't become what it became overnight. But everyone thinks they can instantly grow to become the next economic giant instantly. That kind of thing
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>The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - - Andrew S. Tanenbaum I wonder if he still thinks saying that was a good idea.
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I switched to yyyy-mm-dd for almost all my own records shortly after I learned about it when I started using Linux in 1996. Having any consistent format helps in searching, and as you pointed out this is the simplest to sort.
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That looks like a weak version of "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think", http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/ . You don't have to dive completely into Lion Kimbro's system to find parts of it very useful. Especially the
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>Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Example
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If you count the long-term unemployed, the number of discouraged workers has grown. U6, which only counts those who are discouraged and have been unemployed less than a year, hasn't risen, but other unofficial counts that include those une
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The Return of the Ugly, Racist Pseudoscientist with a Small (bigthink.com)
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Unemployment Rate Down Due To Participation Rate Decline(istockanalyst.com)
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I would prefer to use only open source, but I am not technically literate enough. I have used both Windows and Linux for 16 years, and had been using Linux more and Windows less for the first nine years. Over the past 7 years, since getti
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"Books Were the First Open-Source Software" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-roberts/books-were-the-fi...
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And as Dawkins pointed out, in the most important point in The God Delusion , the religious "moderates" provide epistemic cover and support for the nutjobs. You are enablers of the terrorists and other extremists.
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Already posted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496098
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There have been cases where drugs were mailed to an address and the person receiving the package, not knowing what was in it, was arrested. That is one reason why no one who has any sense will accept a package they were not expecting.
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The fact that Singapore isn't all that democratic from an American perspective might have a good bit to do about why it's thriving otherwise. Go read Graham's Case Against the Democratic State and Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed
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A bureaucratic totalitarianism. It's not actually run by the lawyers, it is run by the bureaucrats, and the lawyers gain excessive power by being the only ones able to negotiate the system. We're almost to the end state now, another two
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Unless you are unsatisfied right now, "progress" isn't really important. The most important part of exercising at least semi-regularly is to maintain your condition, and that get more important as you get older. Nobody has the TIME to do

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