Git, Gitosis, and SSH

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, my previous company was purchased by a larger company (I’ll call it BigCo for the rest of this entry) several years ago, and they still keep me on the payroll for consulting and the more intricate development work on Project Badger. BigCo is not a software company, it’s …

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“The Wild World of Robots”

Interesting facts and statistics. And if you squint at it just right, you can almost see the future that science fiction has foretold for the last sixty years or so, right around the corner. (Via Lifehacker) EDIT, 2013-05-01: The first sentence above used to link to <http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/wild-world-robots/&gt;, but I was asked today by someone from …

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“‘Steve Jobs’ switches to Android”

Just for balance, after yesterday’s thorough Microsoft-bashing post, here’s an Apple-bashing one that I thoroughly agree with too. I still plan to get a fourth-generation iPod Touch when they come out later this year, to replace my aging first-generation one, because it’s still the best non-cell-phone organizer available at present — but I’ll get it …

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“Australian seniors ask Pirate Party for help in accessing right-to-die sites”

This is exactly why organizations like the Pirate Party or Wikileaks need to be kept around — because even if they espouse illegal or semilegal behaviors, or provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to air the proverbial dirty laundry, they act as a check to governments and the corporations that essentially run them. If they …

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“Does tech lean left or right?”

This article may sound insightful, but it isn’t. Tech companies, like all large and successful publicly-traded companies, “lean” whichever way the political winds are blowing… if it looks like party X is going to win, they back party X, regardless of their personal opinions, because the X candidate is most likely to be the one …

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“Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards”

He’s got a point, and a darned good one. The people in charge seldom seem to think about proper security. Their usual thinking seems to go: “this is important, it should be protected., so get some security guards!” Then they fail to consider what purpose those security guards should serve, other than annoying the people …

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