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Oh the Humanity
Oh the Humanity
Opening: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way can destroy a lot of startups. Which brings us to Humane.
·sandofsky.com·
Oh the Humanity
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days

A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.

So nothing new for HN there.

·news.ycombinator.com·
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
Our Subtle Habit of Misusing Managerial Authority
Our Subtle Habit of Misusing Managerial Authority
Quote that sums up something that’s been bugging me for months: “When we use managerial authority as the easy way out of an uncomfortable situation—whether we do so in the absence of skill, to save time, or to avoid unpleasant emotions—we do so at the expense of earned trust between ourselves and our employees.”
·linkedin.com·
Our Subtle Habit of Misusing Managerial Authority
The mess that is Canonical job adverts and interviews
The mess that is Canonical job adverts and interviews

I noticed that job sites have a lot of adverts for positions at Canonical, and I also noticed that their application process seemed weirdly obsessed with "highschool" (despite claiming to be very global in their recruitment practices).

Little did I know...

·hachyderm.io·
The mess that is Canonical job adverts and interviews
Mondo 2000 - Anarchivism
Mondo 2000 - Anarchivism
Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired Magazine.
·anarchivism.org·
Mondo 2000 - Anarchivism
Deleted Scenes | Starship Troopers (1997)
Deleted Scenes | Starship Troopers (1997)

Starship Troopers is one of my very favourite movies. It's rare that I see deleted scences for a movie, espeailly one I love, and think "damn I'm glad this got deleted, this would have made the movie so much worse!".

I'm so glad these scenes are deleted; I feel they would have made the movie so much worse!

·youtube.com·
Deleted Scenes | Starship Troopers (1997)
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Okay, it's kinda useful actualy.

·mitchellh.com·
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto