Interesting Links for 18-04-2012
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andrewducker- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Moore's Law hits cinema cameras - a 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000
- A message to application programmers (these things piss me off too)
- 10 films that were rumoured to be ghost-directed
- Boston, 1967: When marathons were just for men
- At last, a use for homeopathy!
- An explanation of tech terms through the medium of breakfast cereal
- The 501 Developer Manifesto - valuing life over your job
- Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
- The BP oil spill, two years later: Natural recovery far greater than expected
- Twitter Vows To Sue For 'Defensive' Patent Purposes Only. Fantastic. Can we see a trend please?
- Talking to yourself has cognitive benefits
- Half-siblings of autistic children have 50% the chance of having autism as full-siblings
- Neil Gaiman Interviews Stephen King
- What Happened to the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic? (I'm looking forward to The Berg Strikes Back!)
- Now that consumer IP is non-rivalrous and non-excludable, what does that tell us about its price?
- Further evidence found of disturbed immune system in autism
- Operators think Nokia would sell better with Android - Windows smartphones still not selling
A shame, as I'd love there to be more competitors in the phone space, to keep everyone on their toes. I'd actually be tempted by a Windows phone, if they weren't locked to the MS app store.
- We Don't Need Game Publishers, Hardware Makers or Retailers
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Date: 2012-04-18 01:20 pm (UTC)Partly it's that in my case, it's difficult to argue that my free software activities are some kind of unwholesome overspill from my job, since I was doing them before I even had a job, and when I started applying for jobs one of my major criteria for choosing between them was whether any given job would afford me the time and energy (not to mention freedom from overzealous copyright land-grabs in the contract) to carry on with free-software stuff.
But mostly, I think, there's a fundamental difference of viewpoint in that they're dividing the space of human activity into Software Engineering (work) and Everything Else (personal life). Whereas I divide it into Doing Stuff That Matters To My Employer (work) versus Doing Stuff That Matters To Me (personal life), and if some things in the latter category also happen to be software engineering then that makes them no less me-stuff rather than work-stuff.
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Date: 2012-04-18 01:46 pm (UTC)"I vary on this one. I have a bunch of hobbies, of which coding is one. When I go through a coding phase then I'm not a 501 developer. When I go through a boardgaming phase I am.
In any case, I try not to _work_ more than 40-hours per week, but my play frequently still involves computers."
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Date: 2012-04-18 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-18 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-19 05:37 pm (UTC)Also, I can have a work/life balance without it having to be a stone wall sort of thing; I will stay at the office late to play board games with co-workers, or stay late to finish something and then sleep in the next day.