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November 2012

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I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem/
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
#amazon #apple #copyfight #drm #ecosystem #google #imported:pinboard #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #32644

I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
#amazon #apple #copyfight #drm #ecosystem #google #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #22796

Kanban? No, it can't

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2012/11/18/kanban-no-it-cant/
That's an... interesting perspective: "Kanban is a paternalistic project management theory that aims to set developers on the right path. It promotes the idea that the manager is the arbiter of success and the deliverer of change. And like its forbear Scrum, its major proponents are those who don’t code for a living."
#agile #coding #dev #imported:pinboard #kanban #process #scrum #to:fb #work
archive.org #32646

Kanban? No, it can't

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2012/11/18/kanban-no-it-cant
That's an... interesting perspective: "Kanban is a paternalistic project management theory that aims to set developers on the right path. It promotes the idea that the manager is the arbiter of success and the deliverer of change. And like its forbear Scrum, its major proponents are those who don’t code for a living."
#agile #coding #dev #kanban #process #scrum #to:fb #work
archive.org #22783

Deconstructing Agile Communication

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2011/01/15/deconstructing-agile-communication/
We need to return to the communication medium of writing as a skilled, and sometimes arduous craft. We should favour neither speech nor writing above each other, or as binary opposites. Both mechanisms should exist equally in our world and each be used correctly in their appropriate contexts.
#agile #dev #imported:pinboard #to:fb #work
archive.org #32648

Deconstructing Agile Communication

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2011/01/15/deconstructing-agile-communication
We need to return to the communication medium of writing as a skilled, and sometimes arduous craft. We should favour neither speech nor writing above each other, or as binary opposites. Both mechanisms should exist equally in our world and each be used correctly in their appropriate contexts.
#agile #dev #to:fb #work
archive.org #22774

Daily Kos: Inside the Hostess Bankery

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162786/-Inside-the-Hostess-Bankery
I keep hearing how this strike forced them to liquidate. How we should just take it and be glad to have a job. What an unpatriotic view point. The reason these jobs provided me with a middle class opportunity is because people like my father in law and his father fought for my Union rights. I received that pay and those benefits because previous Union members fought for them. I won't sell them, or my coworkers, out.
#business #hostess #imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #unions
archive.org #22771

Marty Kaplan: GOP Smart on Copyright for 24 Hours

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/gop-smart-on-copyright-fo_b_2155931.html
It is delicious to watch a young conservative apply conservative principles to demolish oligopolistic claptrap, even if those industries finance the campaigns of the members of Congress who pay his salary. It is sad to watch his bosses -- who never tire of railing against political correctness - place fealty to corporate elites above the spirit of intellectual inquiry.
#copyfight #imported:pinboard #mpaa #politics #republicans #riaa #to:fb
archive.org #22770

Pulse-Eight. Control your TV from XBMC, or vice versa! USB - CEC Adapter

http://www.pulse-eight.com/store/products/104-usb-hdmi-cec-adapter.aspx
All modern TVs support HDMI-CEC a technology that allows devices to talk with each other over the HDMI cable, using this feature this adapter will send and receive remote key presses to XBMC or MythTV or Windows Media Centre or any other app that supports libCEC on your PC
#hardware #hdmi #hdtv #imported:pinboard #remotes #tv #usb #xbmc
archive.org #22766

Who Killed the Twinkie? : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/who-killed-the-twinkie.html
Perhaps the most striking response to the Hostess news, in that sense, was the tweet from conservative John Nolte, who wrote “Hostess strikers had pension. PENSIONS! What is this 1962?” It was once taken for granted that an industrial worker who worked for a big company for many years would get a solid middle-class lifestyle, and would be taken care of in retirement. Today, that concept seems to many like a relic. Just as Wonder Bread does.
#imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #twinkies #unions #work
archive.org #22765

Chili Twinkie

http://www.instructables.com/id/Chili-Twinkie/
This project is a fun project for both chili pepper afficianados and those with a sense of humor. This is my 12-year old son's creation! It is sort of a Russian roulette with homemade twinkies. We made four twinkies, and filled one with a Thai dragon pepper filling. Will you get the fiery one or will you get a normal one? Either way, it is delicious!
#chili #imported:pinboard #recipes #to:fb #twinkies
archive.org #32650

Chili Twinkie

http://www.instructables.com/id/Chili-Twinkie
This project is a fun project for both chili pepper afficianados and those with a sense of humor. This is my 12-year old son's creation! It is sort of a Russian roulette with homemade twinkies. We made four twinkies, and filled one with a Thai dragon pepper filling. Will you get the fiery one or will you get a normal one? Either way, it is delicious!
#chili #recipes #to:fb #twinkies
archive.org #22753

URI.js - URLs in Javascript

http://medialize.github.com/URI.js
URI.js is a javascript library for working with URLs. It offers a "jQuery-style" API (Fluent Interface, Method Chaining) to read and write all regular components and a number of convenience methods like .directory() and .authority().
#http #javascript #webdev
archive.org #22745

Republicans skip Benghazi hearing; complain about lack of information on Benghazi | The Cable

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/15/republicans_skip_benghazi_hearing_complain_about_lack_of_information_on_benghazi
But although McCain had time to speak on the Senate floor and on television about the lack of information provided to Congress about the attack, he didn't attend the classified briefing for senators Wednesday given to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which he is a member.
#bengazi #imported:pinboard #mccain #politics #republicans #to:fb
archive.org #22744

JS adolescence – James Padolsey

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/js-adolescence/
For me there was a time that can only be described as adolescence in the field of programming and more specifically JavaScript. This period was characterised by a certain laziness and hubris. I thought I was right. I thought others were wrong. I could see no path but the very strict one that I had boxed myself into through a process in which I longed for certainty and the expulsion of realistic doubt.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #programming #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #32654

JS adolescence – James Padolsey

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/js-adolescence
For me there was a time that can only be described as adolescence in the field of programming and more specifically JavaScript. This period was characterised by a certain laziness and hubris. I thought I was right. I thought others were wrong. I could see no path but the very strict one that I had boxed myself into through a process in which I longed for certainty and the expulsion of realistic doubt.
#javascript #programming #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #22731

A Case Study of Republicans vs. Democrats on FEMA | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/fema-case-study-difference-between-democrats-and-republicans
The lesson here is simple. At a deep ideological level, Republicans believe that federal bureaucracies are inherently inept, so when Republicans occupy the White House they have no interest in making the federal bureaucracy work. And it doesn't. Democrats, by contrast, take government services seriously and appoint people whose job is to make sure the federal bureaucracy does work. And it does.
#fema #government #imported:pinboard #politics #sandy #storms #to:fb
archive.org #22724

Reproductive Rights

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/reproductive-rights
Third, I see birth as a firm dividing line because until then the fetus inhabits a woman’s body. A woman’s body is private property – it’s hers. She shouldn’t be forced to let another creature live in it. Once that other creature is out of her body, that’s when it gets rights. Until then, any rights it gets would be taking away from the woman’s rights over her own body. And to me, that matters.
#abortion #imported:pinboard #politics #religion #rights
archive.org #22723

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html
The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex. That’s why they oppose birth control. That’s why they want to ban abortion even though doing so will simply drive women to have dangerous back alley abortions. That’s why they want to penalize women who take public assistance and then dare to have sex, leaving an exemption for those who become pregnant from rape. It’s not about babies. If it were about babies, they would be making access to birth control widespread and free and creating a comprehensive social safety net so that no woman finds herself with a pregnancy she can’t afford. They would be raising money for research on why half of all zygotes fail to implant and working to prevent miscarriages. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. It’s about making sure they have consequences for having unapproved sex.
#abortion #babies #feminism #imported:pinboard #politics #religion #republicans #to:fb
archive.org #22722

pyx: Getting Started Developing for Firefox OS Screencasts

http://donovanpreston.blogspot.com/2012/10/getting-started-developing-for-firefox.html
As we are ramping up newer developers to help with the project, we need clear documentation of the development process. The Gaia/Hacking page is the canonical reference for how to do absolutely everything, but it's overwhelming. To help with this, I made a series of 5 screencasts that cover the basics of using b2g desktop nightly builds, remote debugging with b2g desktop, hacking on gaia itself in b2g desktop, flashing a phone with gaia changes, and what to do if Firefox OS asks you to choose from two homescreens or if remote debugging does not show your source for your app.
#b2g #firefoxos #gaia #imported:pinboard #mozilla #screencasts #webdev
archive.org #22718

Past Midnight: Debugging Firefox OS

http://blog.astithas.com/2012/10/debugging-firefox-os.html
A few months ago, long before the Firefox debugger had shipped, I had tried to see what it would take to get it to debug B2G, or as we call it now, Firefox OS. The hack proved successful and with time it grew into an important debugging target for us. I demoed it at JSConf last April, but at that time a lot of the debugger frontend functionality had not been available in nightlies. As of yesterday, however, nightly builds of Firefox can debug nightly builds of Firefox OS, both in the device and desktop versions. Let me give you a quick rundown of the necessary steps.
#b2g #debugging #firefoxos #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #22717