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The core melts down
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The core melts down. Published: Tue 25 June 2013. My friend Paul Ivanov. Kindly pointed me to this Self-interview after leaving the NetBSD board. This lead me to an earlier NetBSD resignation email. From Charles Hannum, one of the "4 originators of NetBSD". They both complain of lack of leadership. From Merino's post:. Merino also complains that the NetBSD leadership will not take risks:. Hannum wonders aloud whether the diffuse management structure is the problem:. Hannum wanted a change in leadership:.
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Asterisk - organizations
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The XFree / X.Org fork and open source governance. Published: Tue 25 June 2013. Why a history of the X.org fork? Forks are experiments in open-source management (. Management in open-source can be mysterious. In our technical world, we would rather believe that anything important must be technical, and management seems soft and poorly defined. We want to believe that all you need is good code, and that management is for corporate types, whom we despise. I've set out the background in some detail because ...
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A bad time
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Published: Sun 21 April 2013. From the time of these men on, the empire was torn by the strife of the warring kingdoms. Men honoured deceit and power and scoffed at benevolence and righteousness; they put wealth and possession first and courtesy and humility last. Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian; Han Dynasty II (revised edition). p 84 Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press 1993. Proudly powered by Pelican. Which takes great advantage of Python. The theme is by Smashing Magazine.
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Asterisk - China
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Published: Mon 22 April 2013. Shortly before this, the minister of agriculture Yan Yi had been put to death. Yan Yi had originally been a village head in Ji'nan. Because of his honesty and integrity, he was gradually promoted in office until he became one of the highest ministers. [.]. From this time on, the crime known as "disapproval of heart" became a part of the law, and most of the high ministers and officials resorted to gross flattery in order to stay in the good graces of the emperor.
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Asterisk - core
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The XFree / X.Org fork and open source governance. Published: Tue 25 June 2013. Why a history of the X.org fork? Forks are experiments in open-source management (. Management in open-source can be mysterious. In our technical world, we would rather believe that anything important must be technical, and management seems soft and poorly defined. We want to believe that all you need is good code, and that management is for corporate types, whom we despise. I've set out the background in some detail because ...
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Asterisk - History
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Published: Mon 22 April 2013. Shortly before this, the minister of agriculture Yan Yi had been put to death. Yan Yi had originally been a village head in Ji'nan. Because of his honesty and integrity, he was gradually promoted in office until he became one of the highest ministers. [.]. From this time on, the crime known as "disapproval of heart" became a part of the law, and most of the high ministers and officials resorted to gross flattery in order to stay in the good graces of the emperor.
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Asterisk - free software
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The XFree / X.Org fork and open source governance. Published: Tue 25 June 2013. Why a history of the X.org fork? Forks are experiments in open-source management (. Management in open-source can be mysterious. In our technical world, we would rather believe that anything important must be technical, and management seems soft and poorly defined. We want to believe that all you need is good code, and that management is for corporate types, whom we despise. I've set out the background in some detail because ...
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Fernando Perez: The IPython notebook: a historical retrospective
http://blog.fperez.org/2012/01/ipython-notebook-historical.html
Thoughts and notes on open scientific computing, with a focus on Python-based tools (IPython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and friends). Sunday, January 8, 2012. The IPython notebook: a historical retrospective. On December 21 2011, we released IPython 0.12. After an intense 4 1/2 months of development. Along with a number of new features and bug fixes, the main highlight of this release is our new browser-based interactive notebook. I'll try to answer that now. Let's go back to the beginning: when I started...
