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Tim | Ourobengr
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. Thunderbird Uses OpenGL – Who Knew? I have a laptop and a desktop system (as well as a bunch of other crap, but let’s ignore that for a moment). Both laptop and desktop are running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Yesterday I had an odd problem. A new desktop system arrived, so I installed Tumbleweed, eventually ssh’d to my Laptop, started Thunderbird, and…. After an assortment of random dead e...
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. The Politics of Resentment. I’ve been reading The Archdruid Report. Regularly for a long time now, because unlike me, John Michael Greer posts every week and always writes something interesting. Given that we’ve got a federal election. If you want, you can split people in the US into four classes, based on how they get most of their income:. You should probably go read the full post.
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. Snow in the Forest. 8220;How’d you solve the icing problem? 8220;Might want to look into it.”. 8212; Iron Man (2008). The following week the same thing happened, but for rather longer, i.e. well into the evening. This was enough to prompt me to use my landline to call Optus (our mobile phone provider) and report a fault. The usual dance ensued:. 8220;Yes.”. 8220;Yes.”. I Want MyR...
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. Get off my Lawn. Technology now is all about communicating with people, and about sharing our experiences, and that we can do this without having any idea what’s actually going on is fantastic. The price though is that with each service we use, we give up a certain amount of privacy, and what privacy we give up is not necessarily obvious. Thunderbird Uses OpenGL – Who Knew?
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. It’s OK to be Wrong in Public. Working on storage stuff. OK, “yay Tim”. Enough of the backstory, what’s the point? The point (if I can ball up my years of experience, and the experience of the world at large), is that, in aggregate, we write better software if we do it in the open. There’s a whole Free Software. Thing, and the nuances of that discussion are interesting. A few weeks ...
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. Thunderbird Uses OpenGL – Who Knew? I have a laptop and a desktop system (as well as a bunch of other crap, but let’s ignore that for a moment). Both laptop and desktop are running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Yesterday I had an odd problem. A new desktop system arrived, so I installed Tumbleweed, eventually ssh’d to my Laptop, started Thunderbird, and…. After an assortment of random dead e...
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. Pets vs. Cattle. I was at SUSECon 2015. A few weeks ago, which, aside from being a great conference, was an opportunity to actually interact with my colleagues in person for a change. So I finally got to meet Adam Spiers. After working-ish with-ish him for at least three-ish years (strictly speaking we’re on different. Which means I might be qualified to have an opinion on the matter.
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sexism | Ourobengr
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. I saw this on Twitter today:. HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS EMAIL I GOT FROM A RECRUITER USING HIS REAL FULL NAME AND EMAIL cc @girlziplocked. For the list pic.twitter.com/qvAX2HLTZX. Kelly Ellis (@justkelly ok) March 13, 2015. Thunderbird Uses OpenGL – Who Knew? It’s OK to be Wrong in Public. The Politics of Resentment. Oops, That Didn’t Work. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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An engineer eating his own tail. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A Brief Study in Software Engineering. A Brief Exercise in Shameless Self Promotion. At linux.conf.au. The other week, a friend asked if I’d ever considered a career writing a web comic. I forget exactly how it came up, but it might have had something to do with the STONTIH Deathmatch. T-shirt I was wearing at the time, or may have been due to someone mentioning the talk Florian Haas and I gave at LCA 2011. Florian and I...
