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brainwaneI usually post at my NewsBruiser-based blog. There's a a syndicated LiveJournal feed you could subscribe to if you wanted. But, for purposes of alerting the Dreamwidth Latest Posts folks of reasons to subscribe to said feed, here I'll mention a few recent entries of interest.
NYC tourist suggestions for food & things to see, some off the beaten path.
Ada Lovelace Day: Angie Martin. This was hard to write.
Greyhound jokes!
Geeky research from Yahoo! labs NYC. Includes my glib mockery of rational choice econ!
F&#(ing episode titles, how do they work?
Reviews and my thoughts, a year after we launched the Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology.
A bunch of GNOME stuff throughout, like all the hackfest notes and GNOME Journal new-issue announcements. In fact, there is another new one out. Crap, I should announce it harder.
Book reviews: Ursula Nordstrom's letters (Dear Genius), A Deepness in the Sky, Confessions of a Public Speaker, The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories, The File, For The Win, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do. Includes detailed recommendations on Star Trek branded novels.
On moving to a new apartment. "It's the place I've lived longest in my adult life and it's hard to say goodbye."
How I got mildly radioactive. "Since I fly to San Francisco tomorrow, I got a letter I can show the TSA to explain why I'm setting off their Geiger counters." Also includes HIPAA story.
I gave an Open Source Bridge talk. "Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I’ll show you how to fix that."
NYC tourist suggestions for food & things to see, some off the beaten path.
Ada Lovelace Day: Angie Martin. This was hard to write.
Greyhound jokes!
Geeky research from Yahoo! labs NYC. Includes my glib mockery of rational choice econ!
F&#(ing episode titles, how do they work?
Reviews and my thoughts, a year after we launched the Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology.
A bunch of GNOME stuff throughout, like all the hackfest notes and GNOME Journal new-issue announcements. In fact, there is another new one out. Crap, I should announce it harder.
Book reviews: Ursula Nordstrom's letters (Dear Genius), A Deepness in the Sky, Confessions of a Public Speaker, The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories, The File, For The Win, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do. Includes detailed recommendations on Star Trek branded novels.
On moving to a new apartment. "It's the place I've lived longest in my adult life and it's hard to say goodbye."
How I got mildly radioactive. "Since I fly to San Francisco tomorrow, I got a letter I can show the TSA to explain why I'm setting off their Geiger counters." Also includes HIPAA story.
I gave an Open Source Bridge talk. "Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I’ll show you how to fix that."
The very short version: a company does not upstream its patches, even though it should for long-term practical reasons, because of problems in four general categories. The company might lack a FLOSS culture. There might be legal confusion about what employees are allowed to do, and how to get permission. The project management workflow and timelines might not allow time for proper engineering. And the external project might have a terrible UI for new contributors.
Once you abstract these categories away from the specific problem of accidentally hoarded code rotting away, you see that they also apply to other problems of the type "I really know I should be doing foo but haven't gotten around to it."
