ryanoneill

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   by ryanoneill 15y ago

   "There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. ... Because the owners of this country don't want that. ... They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. ... The
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   by ryanoneill 15y ago

   I wonder how much this was directly influenced by Phil Haack (@haacked) leaving Microsoft to go work at Github.
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   by ryanoneill 15y ago

   This happens repeatedly outside the startup world as well. The company I work for has relied on technology that Microsoft developed, supported, and subsequently walked away from. That is the nature of both business and technology.
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   by ryanoneill 15y ago

   This was also mentioned in passing on the Software Engineering Radio Podcast that they did with Jonas Boner. It came up in the context of discussing Mist and what that word means in German.