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Jamie Zawinski, one of the original Netscape developers.

I've never done any type of film making. I suspect from my attempts at photography and writing (and my reading about them), that the first, most cost effective investment would be …

I have seen that one discussed often enough on forums, I believe it is the "Apple Fanboy Android".

"So what has gone wrong? Why aren’t agile techniques scaling? Takes no genius to diagnose that problem: agile, trying to scale up from the bottom, collides with the top-down-impose…

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers …

That's the sort of thing that happens when semantics meets mathematics; Swizec screwed up his statement of the problem. Swizec and the people agreeing that the answer is yes are co…

The big problem with Jupiter is its particularly intense magnetic field and Van Allen radiation belt. It is going to be too dangerous to approach without a breakthrough in radiatio…

From one of the featured comments: >Yeah, if it were up to me, 10% of our time would be spent on training-- teaching, learning, research, etc. But the higher-ups will often veto th…

I thought his discussion of the Linux Hater's Blog, http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=628 , was even better. ADDED: Also the Linux Hater's Blog is still going if only intermittently, http:…

The really scary bit is that most people still support the police, and will probably continue to do so no matter what the police do.

As the post admitted, few supplements have benefit once you are eating a well-balanced diet. As he put it, "these are best used to fill any deficiencies." Though it is sad to see w…

"Aim high, you may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off." Mercedes Lackey, I forget which book, but I think it was Tarma that said it.

The larger the team, the more overhead is needed, no matter what system you are using. The real problem is that scrum doesn't scale as efficiently as more structured management sys…

This article demonstrates a problem I have seen with many companies over decades. Even TI didn't become what it became overnight. But everyone thinks they can instantly grow to bec…

>The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - - Andrew S. Tanenbaum I wonder if he still thinks saying that was a good idea.

I switched to yyyy-mm-dd for almost all my own records shortly after I learned about it when I started using Linux in 1996. Having any consistent format helps in searching, and as …

That looks like a weak version of "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think", http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/ . You don't have to dive completely into Lion Kimbro's…

>Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization,…

If you count the long-term unemployed, the number of discouraged workers has grown. U6, which only counts those who are discouraged and have been unemployed less than a year, hasn'…