Monthly Archives: June 2007

From offshore to offshore

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

Now folks in India can identify with their counterparts in the U.S. as they worry about jobs in India being offshored (again) to Mexico: Hit by rising costs in India, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has decided to service US clients … Continue reading →

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A short history of dirty words

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Challenges working from home…

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Lolcode. You has it.

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Work together, folks! We only need one init system

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Developers considered harmful…

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Fsck ‘em if they can’t take a comment…

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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