Monthly Archives: June 2007
A short history of dirty words
Slate has a brief look at the history of dirty words that's mildly entertaining. Among other things, it mentions that the f-word is older than most people think it is -- from the 1500s, according to Slate, which makes it all the more surprising that it's taken so long for the word to lose (some [...]
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Challenges working from home...
Other folks who work from home will identify with this article, which talks about some of the downsides (yes, there really are some...) to working from home:
The challenges of a home office can sometimes supplant the bevy of reasons most entrepreneurs open one in the first place. Home-based business owners say the [...]
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Lolcode. You has it.
I couldn't resist. Okay, I probably could have if I tried real hard, but I didn't.
Once I heard about LOLCODE, I had to write a short tutorial for it. Yes, total silliness, but every once in a while a little silliness is good for you. And, honestly, I find LOLCODE easier to read than Perl [...]
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Work together, folks! We only need one init system
Somebody give Roland Wolters a cigar, or some non-carcinogenic prize, for his astute observations that 1) Fedora (and, by extension, RHEL) needs to join the club and start looking at a new init system, and 2) that the Ubuntu folks seem to be well underway with Upstart.
Wolters notes that the Fedora folks are discussing [...]
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Developers considered harmful...
Every time I see this "choice considered harmful" argument from a developer, it makes me twitch. Gervase Markham is the latest to blog about how "choice is harmful," because users can't be trusted to do the right thing:
But there are some contexts where choice is harmful. Security is one. For example, I believe that if [...]
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Fsck 'em if they can't take a comment...
Amusing discussion in the Mozilla bugtracker about "swear words" in the comments in the source code here.
Well, almost amusing... I find it tiring that someone feels it necessary to play moral guardian and try to protect us all from the horrors of a four-letter word.
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From offshore to offshore