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by rmchugh 13y ago
In my work, developers only have read access to production servers (for checking logs etc). If you want to make a change to a production system, you need to go formally request it through OTRS. So this sort of situation can't really ar
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Stupid Simple Things SF Techies Could Do To Stop Being Hated(dashes.com)
27 points by rmchugh 13y ago|96 comments
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by rmchugh 13y ago
if you think etymology is more important than the historical tradition, then anarchism might as well be anarcho-capitalism, Stirnerism, Zen Buddhism or whatever else you can imagine. If you want to define anarchism as a political tradition,
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by rmchugh 13y ago
he was comparing the working class (i.e. the people who live off the sale of their labour) to unemployed and homeless people (what Marx would have called the lumpenproletariat). I guess your confusion stems from the fact that working class
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by rmchugh 13y ago
great post. i think the main cause is economic / structural, but the underlying problem may well be exacerbated by bad behaviour of individuals. code4lib have an anti-harassment problem to deal with the behavioural problems ( https:&#x
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by rmchugh 13y ago
I think it's a really well done visualisation. Perhaps you could improve it by making it easier to select a user and see their data. For example, instead of having to click on the query tool, then clicking on the user, then clicking on
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by rmchugh 13y ago
When I went to the U.S. last, immigration made me feel like a criminal even though it was just for a holiday. I think it's just part of the U.S. immigration experience. Greatest country on earth, don'tcha know.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
free as in beer?
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by rmchugh 13y ago
I'm actually on 37 because I work in Denmark. I would probably do a bit more if I didn't have a kid to collect / feed etc.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
Nice piece. This definitely resonates: "Braces should go on the next line. Braces should go on the same line. Use tabs to indent. But tabs are evil. You should use stored procedures, but actually you shouldn’t use them. You should alwa
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by rmchugh 13y ago
http://careers.mozilla.org/ you mean...
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by rmchugh 13y ago
I think open source can be an important tool for socially beneficial projects. Since open source tools are free, they can be accessed by anyone. Since they are open, they can be modified easily to suit local needs. By removing the cost of i
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by rmchugh 13y ago
yeah, you could be making zero day exploits and selling them to blackhats, deadly weapons for use in invading third world countries, financial products to help corporations avoidpayin tax. the possibilities are endless and all for the best
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by rmchugh 13y ago
I think you have an interesting point about recognition for your work. It seems to me that Wikipedia's back end is ferociously clunky and outdated, there is no easy way to show all contributions made by a specific user, for example. If
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by rmchugh 13y ago
Do you have any evidence for what you're saying or is it just ideology speaking? Being on bistand does not mean having the week off. It means regular meetings in the job centre, a fixed quota of job applications to submit and often for
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by rmchugh 13y ago
Actually, you're wrong. According to this article ( http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_minimum_wage_and_the_danis.... ) "The average full-time equivalent McDonald’s employee in Denmark makes about $45,000 a year
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by rmchugh 13y ago
Never let facts get in the way of hyperbole.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
The problem is not that people would rather live on government payouts, none of the unemployed people I know here want to be unemployed. The problem is that there are not jobs for their skillsets. The solution to this is retraining rather t