Blizzard is not known for their foresight in working with the open source community. If it isn’t on their terms they will kill it. The bnetd project also took nothing from Blizzard, but it scared them and so they destroyed it. Links Private MMO servers – A grey area with potential Shared with: Public
I’m still not getting a twitter account! Links Here’s What 10,000 Characters Looks Like | TechCrunch http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/18/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-the-140-character-limit-is-staying/ Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez Comments Christopher Hicks - 2016-03-19T01:31:39Z http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/18/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-the-140-character-limit-is-staying/ apparently it was all a lie, oh my!
Let us be clear: I am part of the problem. I say “ops guys” all of the time and it is clear to me now how tasteless that is. I’m sorry. I call myself a feminist, but it does not fit with my behavior here. I will try harder. I can replace “ops guys” in my brain with “ops folks”. I know I can. I will keep trying. +Bridget Kromhout Thanks for an excellent article. You are absolutely correct on so many levels. The ops community definitely needs more diversity and wider visibility. I’m proud of what I’ve done to make our community more diverse by prodding recruiters and encouraging women to interview for ops jobs. Clearly that would be an easier and more effective effort if our community were more respectful and welcoming. I will help make that happen. ...
Aren’t you happy to be on google+ instead? Links Facebook use ‘undermines well-being’ Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez Comments Jerry Landry - 2013-08-29T18:56:28Z Isn’t it the same basic principles, I guess facebook overloads with games and bad spamming ads and such. Jerry Landry - 2013-08-29T18:56:28Z Isn’t it the same basic principles, I guess facebook overloads with games and bad spamming ads and such. Christopher Hicks - 2013-08-31T05:09:21Z The principles are absolutely the same and there’s no reason to guess that the same effect would not occur on google+. But taunting facebook and promoting google+ is entertaining. ...
I hope the geeks at google are hunting down the lawyers about now and going midevil. Links Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality | Threat Level | Wired.com Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez
Beautiful, amazing, sad, wow, hmmm Links Internet Census 2012 Shared with: Public
Why does spam get archived in hours? Repeatedly across numerous groups I try to flag spam in Linked-In groups and I find that the message is already archived. I only found out about these posts because of the daily Linked-In emails, so these posts are being archived in less than a day, often in single digit hours. How could this be? The link associated with this post was meant to be an example, but the message board post is http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=134866365&gid=1268377&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_nd-pst_ttle-cn&ut=0WocEMpkIQr5k1 ...