As an open source leader, you’re like a doctor or a teacher. If you’re doing a good job, then your community needs you less and less.
My CodeConf Talk: Your Community Is Your Best Feature | Smarterware - 0 views
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Likewise, virtual or in-person meetups—like IRC office hours, weekend-long hackfests, all give people a time and date to show up and work on a specific problem.
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Instead of thinking from the perspective of “what does the project need?” think about what this person wants.
Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's Uneasy Glare - The New York Times - 0 views
The Internet With A Human Face - Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk - 0 views
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as if we forced people to use only integers because computers have difficulty representing real numbers.
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How about SixDegrees.com, did anybody here use that? That was the first big social network, back in 1999.
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the focus on government spying prevents us from thinking harder about the real pitfalls of a permanent record.
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Wikipedia, a free site that not only doesn't make revenue, but loses so much money they have to ask for donations just to be broke.
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Investor storytime only works if you can argue that advertising in the future is going to be effective and lucrative in ways it just isn't today.
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We're addicted to 'big data' not because it's effective now, but because we need it to tell better stories