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If the south had won the civil war, wouldn't the allies have lost WW2? Would the CSA have been an axis power?

Using an OSS project, reporting bugs, subjecting it to new stresses are all forms of contribution.

Counterpoint to the idea that OSS business are "moochers": thriving OSS projects need thriving business ecosystems.

I’m not doing a touchdown dance over health care today. This zombie bill has come back from the dead over & over again.

2/2: it's not totally free but neither is distracted employees worrying about their baby. Offices feel friendlier with babies around.

1: In general, it seems like an unvarnished win to allow (behaving) babies to stay with their parent at work.https://twitter.com/wycats/status/887487813788160000 …

An example of the phenomenon I'm talking about: flux refines mvc in these ways" > "here's why MVC is terrible and flux is better"

I'd like it if we talked more in terms of improvements to shared ideas than disruptions that change the face of programming as we know it.

We'd rather believe that Facebook has invented a new paradigm than they made a good refinement to ideas that we're working poorly for them.

But in general "I have made an improvement to a good idea" isn't sexy. Certainly isn't worthy of the geniuses at worshipped major companies.

Sometimes the problems are contextual (latency requirements on the web differ from smalltalk images)

People are working on refining good ideas whose origin is often old, but which have problems that need solving.

In reality, it is neither true that "all problems were solved in the 80s" nor that "it's a new paradigm!". The truth is more boring.

The frustrating thing is that it leaves no space for cultural memory and leaves the impression of a great deal of fatigue.

https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/887000366067445760 … "new buzzword becomes the new silver bullet" -> "gotta recast my work in those terms" is huge waste of human capital

Callling it: next buzzword JavaScripters are going to start using wrong and I'm going to have to pretend to take seriously is "code motion."

Tomorrow: Actually there were 23 people in the room Monday: Turns out his entire campaign staff was there Wednesday: Putin was also there