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South African news/links — cool!
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“I mean, welcoming grass-roots voices is good, but if you want to know where Python is going, you need to listen to Guido …. Which is to say, information transfer from obsessives is a valid sub-function of tribal gatherings.”
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“At the same time, i’m faced with the challenge i always face when in a room full of women. I’ve definitely grown up in a boy’s world, trying to out-boy the boys.”
I feel like this a lot of the time too — danah’s right, it is very sad
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“One thing that strikes me is that I’ve heard these stories before in other fields. I ran into similar situations as a lawyer and as a traditional journalist. There are lessons to be learned and solutions to be had there.”
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“I think any online service can call itself “Open†if it makes, and lives up to, this commitment: Any data that you give us, we’ll let you take away again, without withholding anything, or encoding it in a proprietary format, or ….”
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“Not every programmer wants to work in a private office. In fact quite a few would tell you unequivocally that they prefer the camaradarie and easy information sharing of an open space. Don’t fall for it. They also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony.”
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“You probably forgot that most of the people that read Inc. are geeks. And we buy insurance. Lots of insurance. Like me. And in fact I used to buy it from you. But not any more.”
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This is the most dangerous thing I’ve seen in AGES. I have thousands of bookmarks in my Firefox, largely due to a habit of saving all the tabs I still have open at the end of the day in a “day” folder.