"The TAPR Open Hardware License ("OHL") provides a framework for hardware projects that is similar to the one used for Open Source software. This isn't as straight-forward as it seems because legal concepts that work well for software (such as copyright and copyleft) don't neatly fit when dealing with hardware products and the documentation used to create them."

"So the plan, when we’re not within WiFi range, is provide Internet access to Coworkout participants that don’t have their own cellular data card with one of these — a Verizon V740 EvDO card:…"

[Installing on Leopard Server seems even simpler, when I think about it]

"…And now you can start your server as usual with script/server. If you see any error, check the backtrace to see which plugin/gem is causing it and try to google about it, but hopefully your application will run smoothly from the first time."

"That Wilson regarded “reason and the senses” so highly that he thought the Bible could not “supercede” the findings of such demonstrates that his political-theology merits the label “rationalism.”"

"Here’s the idea: A mobile, outdoor co-working space. That’s pretty much it."

[Compare with aforementioned Bob Martin's Craftsmanship post...]

"As of today, there's no Craigslist busily destroying the financial foundations of the modern university. Teaching is a lot more complicated than advertising, and universities have the advantage of sitting behind government-backed barriers to competition, in the form of accreditation. Anyone can use the Internet to sell classified ads or publish opinion columns or analyze the local news. Not anyone can sell credit-bearing courses or widely recognized degrees."

"A couple of good thoughts about those unintended consequences we create out here on the social side of the internet. I think that many of us are putting ourselves online in a very open and honest way because we want to connect to people. I’m surprised how many people I’ve connected with online who describe themselves as introverts. Having some tools that allow people to connect, including those who find it difficult to connect in their analog lives, is a tremendous social good."

[noting this in particular for the publishing business model it shadows]

"If memory serves, when there were about 300 Dalton stores, the sale of 6 copies a week constituted a “hot list” book and 6 copies a month was “warm list.” This was my first lesson in how few books sell enough to create statistical significance in any one store. That’s a critical thing to understand.

Soon, Dalton had established the concept of “model stock”, books that were automatically reordered based on sales. Smart sales reps learned quickly that getting a model was more important than getting a big quantity buy to the sales health of most books."

"I also am still unable to shake the sense that I am somehow responsible for my failure, that it was about something lacking in my character or skills, rather than about the market and the odds. If only… I had published more. If only… I had taken that job instead of that other one. If only… I was better at writing cover letters. If only… my interests were more marketable. If only, if only, if only.

I feel like I was crippled, and that I still struggle with the effects of that now.

What kills me, particularly, is that the experience of that career trauma is what has made it so challenging to move on. In some essential way I feel damaged, and it carries over into all of my subsequent efforts to remake myself and my career. An unfriendly market becomes a personal career failure becomes a personal failure, period."

"Why should a young aspiring software professional spend four years and $200K+ to attend an institution that will teach them less about their chosen profession than 3 months of working on a real project with talented mentors? Indeed, why should employers pay $50K for undertrained programmers who are sure to make horrific messes for the next three years of their career?

Consider instead a team of craftspeople. At the center of this team is a master programmer. This is someone who has been programming for two decades or more. This person understand systems at a gut level, and can quickly make technical judgements without agonizing over them. Such a person can direct a team with the kind of calm confidence that only comes with years of experience and seasoning."

"Can we learn anything from all this? Going back to the triumph-of-evil quote, we may ask, how can we defend ourselves from the bogus quote? It is clearly unreasonable for anyone to have to prove a quote bogus…."