I submitted a few patches but got turned of having to deal with Vala and C. Tooling and docs feel ancient compared to whats available in .Net/Java/js etc.
Thats said I really admire how ambitious they tried to be and all the stuff they have managed to produce with such few resources.
How many people stay on the same team for six to seven years these days to have long term effect on orgs or policy?
Just ask anyone to predict where they will be in six to seven years first or what their predictions were six to seven years back. Most have no clue because this is such a complex ever changing world for a 6 inch chimp brain to fully grok. But lets talk about where the entire chimp troupe will be in six to seven years.
First of all the US department of labor says that typical salaried employees stay at a job about five years.
Secondly, even if not: even when changing jobs your prior position will affect the next job. So “falling behind” on the ladder happens across companies as well.
One reason to use that analogy would be to suggest that a lot of harm is consequently created by incentivizing the culling. Also a lot of people just don't think about team sports that much.
My answer would be don't waste your time and energy.
We have 6 inch chimp brains. Some types of problems require 7 inch chimp brains or 2000 inch chimp brains or 7 million inch chimp brains.
The only thing you have to understand when you take 2 chimps and throw them into a room with such type of complex problems is blundering ensues.
The focus of all chimps is then drawn to the blundering, whose fault it is, who said what, who did what, who can be blamed, who needs to change etc etc etc but all that just takes focus away from the fact that the problem itself is too complex for a chimp.
This is the Theory of Bounded Rationality (which won a Nobel Prize for explaining why the world couldnt prevent world war 2 after experiencing the devastation of world war 1).
Not everything can be understood. Misunderstanding on the other hand is directly proportional to the complexity of the problem. And it doesn't get more complex that the Israel-Palestine issue.
The chimps will continue to blunder.
The Theory of Bounded Rationality recommends teaching kids that are facing complex problems to ditch them and instead work on simple ones.
Hmmm. The Russians and Chinese don't go advertising their cyberwarfare exploits, but we know of them because targets will be vocal. Our targets would be vocal too. So, I don't think we're doing as much as the other guys in terms of causing random havoc. We generally do "surgical" tits for their tats, as far as I understand. You don't hear Sinopec going off-line or GazProm.
All my searches are only turning up the most recent news about the most recent pipeline hack, but I seem to recall reading that the US hacked/sabotaged an eastern European oil or gas pipeline decades ago.
If 2 ppl are running on a track, given different needs, abilities, personalities, life experience etc to get into sync usually one has to slow down and the other has to speed up.
But staying in that state for ever can be quite an unnatural thing,
because both aren't running at their natural pace.
So communication is key. People need to hear that you appreciate when they slow down for you. They need to hear what made you want to speed up for them. They need to hear you arent holding them responsible to stay in sync with you forever but that you enjoy their company and the reasons why. They need to hear where you are heading and why you think its going to be fun. It becomes easier to reconnect with people when you spend time thinking about and verbalizing some of these things.
Its all about just being honest and saying simple things. You can do it.
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Looks like Northop Grumann is targeting the Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbells of the world.
Which makes me wonder what happened with the whole 3D printing guns story...at one point few years back it was front page news for a while. Weird how no one talks about it anymore...
Perhaps it's just so easy to buy guns on the black market that there's no point going through the effort of 3D printing one? I'm just speculating, I have no idea.
It think it’s more relevant that 3D printed guns mostly don’t work well and fall apart after a most a couple of shots. By the time you build something that works well you may as well get proper machining tools and make it out of metal.
So the gist seems to be when people are willing to donate to you dont raise cash. Instead wait for god knows what situation in this unpredictable world to strike and then start your fund raising.
The only reason Fuckerberg or Ellison or Murdoch or Google dont already own Wikipedia is Wikipedia has enough cash to tell them to fuck off. Not to mention dealing with all kinds of orgs, govt beauracrats, politicans all over the globe exerting pressures.
In this world if you dont have Financial Independence what path you chart out will never be under your control.
This article would have been useful if there were suggestions about how to go about fund raising better.
Thats said I really admire how ambitious they tried to be and all the stuff they have managed to produce with such few resources.