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by robin2 13y ago
It rather depends what you count as "killing Hollywood". Back in the late 90s, I used to get rather perplexed by the way geeks railed against DVD zoning, DMCA, etc. Yes, the entertainment industry was acting in fairly nasty ways t
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by robin2 13y ago
> guess what happens Because intrinsic pleasures of the job are more important to you than your compensation package, you initially find dealing with "lousy coworkers" demotivating. But you endeavour to make the best of a bad s
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by robin2 13y ago
There's a limit to the amount of serious, concentrated thinking that you can do in day, so it should be fairly obvious that pressurizing coders in to working long hours is counter-productive. With other jobs it might be less of an issu
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by robin2 13y ago
So perhaps the saying should be "the frenemy of my frenemy is my end"
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by robin2 13y ago
With regard to the word "locust" being used pejoratively, I think that's a bit off the mark. Fairly close to the top of the essay, the author says "I've used (and continue to use) these services and don't feel
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by robin2 13y ago
Apparently Michael Moorcock swears by the Lester Dent Master Plot Formula: http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html
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Edward Snowden's LinkedIn Profile(rdn32.com)
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by robin2 13y ago
I thought this quote was interesting: "Programming systems can, of course, be built without plan and without knowledge, let alone understanding, of the deep structural issues involved, just as houses, cities, systems of dams, and national e
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by robin2 13y ago
I thought Matthew Stewart's take on Theory X / Theory Y from a few years back was fairly sharp: http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00029?gko=5d297 In particular, his account of how the axis of freedom vs control in this sort of mana
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by robin2 17y ago
I remember doing some of Dave Thomas' code katas when he first posted them, and thinking that they were fun but a bit pointless, and generally rather too easy to learn much from. The other month at work I did a presentation at work on Andy