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Can you clarify if this is a 1:1 backfill for Josepha's role or if her scope will be different?

For many years, the official guidance on the trademark has explicitly been that WP was not the trademark and people should use that instead of WordPress. Tons and tons of people us…

I mean, don't use UUID for user-facing things sure, but that doesn't mean it's not useful in of itself. That's a terrible way to use it is all.

Years ago, while working at a VC firm (in the office pool) my wife got to pick her own title. I convinced her briefly to go with business cards with the title: Floccinaucinihilipil…

My career in tech has never suffered for not having a college degree. I have lost jobs to people who had advanced degrees, but as far as I know I've never lost out on a job due to …

LOL. I was just hilariously accused of being a racist for tweeting the #dropdropbox hash tag.

It's about time.

We use Gitolite, it's not totally amazing, but it works.

Borked.

I have done something very similar. Walked out of an interview (politely) due to how it was being conducted. Employers forget that interviews are two-way, and that a talented poten…

Wow, wired really has hit a low point here. This feels like little more than linkbaiting trolling, but I suspect that it was in earnest which is almost worse.

haha, yeah switching to an Oracle-backed version of CentOS is going to be 'better'. Better like Solaris? Needlessly different for it's own sake! Hah, no thanks.

It's not just tablets, I get that junk on my other android and iOS devices (nook, phone, etc) all the time now. For some reason the news sites seem to be the worst offenders. It fe…

This seems to be a fairly standard gripe from the W3C. "Listen to us, because if you don't the sky will fall!" They are making themselves increasingly irrelevant because they exist…

Yes, exactly. I hate that they are hijacking the browser's behaviour and replacing the normal scrollbars with those silly little things for example. Trying to make this act like it…

It's sad that so much thought and energy went into designing something so mind-blowingly awful. I'm with city41, I'm constantly chasing my labels now. I don't WANT gmail to act mor…