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davetong

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March 17, 2011 (15y ago)
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  1. I don't understand open source

    I had an interesting discussion with a colleague yesterday who raised some questions I couldn't answer: 1. Who funds open source projects and the main contributors to those projects? For instance, the Rails project has…

    7 points 11
  2. Amazon Boss Taught Me When To Quit (lifehacker.com.au)
    1 points 1
  3. Jason Hoffman doesn't run your company so he doesn't care (davetong.posterous.com)
    2 points 0
  4. Why is the DropBox logo wrong? (obiwanchinobi.tumblr.com)
    1 points 2
  5. Kickstarter is smoking it up (kickstarter.com)
    1 points 0
  6. $49 for a development PDF? (workshops.thoughtbot.com)
    3 points 0
  7. Facebook's evangelist for MySQL is a joke

    OM had an article about why FB prefers MySQL and quotes FB's Mark Callaghan for his reasons. Did anyone ever ask whether Callaghan's previous 8 years at Oracle had any impact of why he is an evangelist for mysql?…

    4 points 4
  8. Lego and iPhone (george.lego.com)
    2 points 0
  9. Words with Friends + American Super-Sized Greasy Food = Fail (davetong-ict.tumblr.com)
    1 points 0
  10. Proprietary vs open source: don’t limit yourself and use both (dave-chino-tong.tumblr.com)
    1 points 0
  11. Simple tips for Startups (businessinsider.com)
    3 points 0
  12. Web overkill of NINJA's

    Does anyone else find it annoying when job ads, landing pages, logos and companies are based on NINJA's? The use/reference/depiction of NINJA's seems absurd. Ninja's are silent, backstabbing and dishonourable. Why would…

    1 points 1
  13. Misuse of the term "Engineer" in job ads

    I've noticed an anti-pattern in job adverts of the mis-labelling of the job position of a "programmer" as a "software engineer". There are major differences between the two so why do job adverts do it?

    2 points 2