Category: culture
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Eric S. Raymond’s Turn at Becoming The Biggest Asshole in Open Source
Eric S. Raymond: The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to…
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Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Archive.org has a special on archived muzak in aisle 89: In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash…
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Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus
John Carmack is one of those rare people who pretty much everything they write is worth reading. He’s not always right, but it is always entertaining to watch his level of genius on display. In this case, Carmack is writing about overcoming the problems he ran into while developing a custom virtual reality environment where…
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8-Bit Generation
There are not many people I trust to make recommendations about funding another crowdfunding campaign from people who have already failed to ship a documentary once, but you should read the full argument from Jason Scott. Here’s just a part: Way back in 2012, I posted something, talking about how worried I was that a…