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Eric Sinclair
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Chicago based quasi-geek interested learning, knowledge management and corralling, and collaboration. How do individuals and teams work better together....
tomate 🍅I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:
I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>
Joe Germuska“Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people; used to control people instead of to free them. Time to change all that—we need a People’s Computer Company”
https://archive.org/details/1972-10-peoples-computer-company/mode/1up
That's a heck of a room. Assume you mapped it so you didn't get lost?
Jeff Atwood"When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless behavior and positive action that all hackers aspire to – but very few actually achieve." (2013) https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-end-of-ragequitting/
The End of Ragequitting
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That’s what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless behavior and positive action that all
@dansinker I'm proposing a presidential department ^W commission investigation
It's not me, but @anticdent is on my version of said list... And I know his is a tough list to get on.
anticdent (@[email protected])
A friend has been failing to get a new software dev job for a while now. They're just not very good at coding interviews. However I have worked with them and would very happily do so again[1]. Their code is solid, intelligent, readable, maintainable. This industry is so messed up. [1] There are very few people on that list.
anticdentA friend has been failing to get a new software dev job for a while now. They're just not very good at coding interviews.
However I have worked with them and would very happily do so again[1]. Their code is solid, intelligent, readable, maintainable.
This industry is so messed up.
[1] There are very few people on that list.
Read through as there's also a Kickstarter running to produce a documentary about the group and their response to the present scenarios of youth.
From: @jennitaur
https://social.coop/@jennitaur/113166392241435474
From: @jennitaur
https://social.coop/@jennitaur/113166392241435474
Jenny Odell (@[email protected])
nyc folks: until october 13, the luddite club (group of very cool kids with flip phones etc) is hosting a scavenger hunt in brooklyn. how do I know this? I just did an interview for a documentary about them 🫡 more info in my latest newsletter: https://buttondown.com/jennitaur/archive/luddite-club-scavenger-hunt/
powersoffourEspecially with headphones, the 20th anniversary remaster of "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" by @kleptones is really incredible. Eternal thanks to @waxy and @andybaio for publicizing this, back in the day.
It's absolutely a desert island disc for me.