published on the stability of the privatized medicare market. stackoverflow auto-removes a leading hi when posting an answer
enjoyed at the kennedy center the national ballet of ukraine with special guests shumka, an evening with david sedaris
watched an elephant die in american experience s3e14 coney island, a jeopardy contestant pronounce honduras capital gucci at 2nd & 3rd syllables
first understood own mortality in childhood learning sun eventually engulfs earth, my father attempted calm: don't worry, you'll be long gone by then
drew one of the ceramic arts featured at the izmir history and art museum, then the matryoshkats. canada lynx a challenging feline to sketch out
read the cathedral & the bazaar: musings on linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary by eric s. raymond
linus torvalds..lazy like a fox
debugging is parallelizable
i sent chatty announcements to the beta list whenever i released, encouraging people to participate
how ants find food: exploration by diffusion, followed by exploitation mediated by a scalable communication mechanism
to make the bazaar model work, it helps enormously if you have at least a little skill charming people
joy, humor, and playfulness are indeed assets..it is no mere joke that the linux mascot is a cuddly, neotenous penguin
the side with the least invested loses. interestingly this happens to be the same heuristic that many relational database engines resolve deadlocks. when two threads are deadlocked over resources, the side with the least invested in the current transaction is selected as the deadlock victim and is terminated
the number of contributors (and, at second order, the success of) projects is strongly and inversely correlated with the number of hoops each project makes a user go through to contribute
there is a very strong social pressure against forking, for good reasons. nobody wants to be on a picket line, in court, or in a firefight either. but the right to fork is like the right to strike, the right to sue, or the right to bear arms - you don't want to have to exercise any of these rights, but it's a signal of serious danger when anyone tries to take them away
the full source for doom was released in late 1997
open-source firms hire star hackers for much the same reasons that universities hire star academics. in both cases, the practice is similar in mechanism and effect to the system of aristocratic patronage that funded most fine art until after the industrial revolution
in an economy rapidly becoming more complex and information-centered, there will always be plenty of work and a healthy demand for people who can make computers do things - no matter how much time and how many secrets they give away
a rather large plastic penguin, booming out "may the source be with you!"
microsoft tax
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