A friend recently sent me an email. It wasn't intended to be about me -- it
was written about someone else. But his words apply so well to me that I
will mis-quote him here.
I'll pretend it's about OpenHatch just so that the effect is more personal
on me.
He was great when I spoke to him on telephone a few years ago but I and many others, who were working on or interested in working on the OpenHatch project, found it nearly impossible to
communicate with him meaningfully via email. I understand by his own statements at the time that his attention was very divided and unfortunately OpenHatch was receiving very little
attention from him. Almost everyone involved with OpenHatch at the time was failing to give the attention to the project which would have been needed to make the project a great success.
The problem was not Asheesh himself but a culture which pervaded the environment he was working in. This is a general problem of small projects managed by people pursing
too many other interests.
“Write me up then. It’s one more story that I can go home and tell my mothers. And I’m sure my girlfriend would love to hear it, too.” Then she smiled and walked out.
With
ansi color there is a very limited range of parts of speech that I can label (the .nanorc that
I'm using is here: http://ge.aihea.net/nanorc). This feature request is for 256 color support in nano.
Tue, 02 Aug 2011
Steph Alarcon on education
Steph and I were discussing programs like the Boston Python Workshop. She said:
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Why it's important to focus on things
A friend recently sent me an email. It wasn't intended to be about me -- it was written about someone else. But his words apply so well to me that I will mis-quote him here.
I'll pretend it's about OpenHatch just so that the effect is more personal on me.
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Fri, 27 May 2011
SpiderOak gives back
-- open source libraries released by SpiderOak.
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Fri, 13 May 2011
Gay pride shirt
-- Found on tumblr.
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Thu, 28 Apr 2011
On entreprenurs, and risk-taking
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Wed, 06 Apr 2011
The internet in space
Some hackerspaces have slow Internet connectivity sometimes:
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Wed, 22 Dec 2010
Micro melodrama, over IRC
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Thu, 21 Oct 2010
Upgrade Virtualbox
A snippet from the VirtualBox Changelog:
I guess I should upgrade.
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Sat, 09 Oct 2010
Nano for natural language processing
I just saw this great post on the nano-devel list:
Owen writes:
I have a local mirror of the nanorc, too. (The image above is a local mirror of Owen's file.)
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