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“This is two minutes and twenty seconds of extreme awesome.” -Six

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless.

So. True.

(Though replace “CIO” with “senior technical management” and “Is” with “Can Be”. While you’re at it, replace “Application Developers” with “System Administrators. Let’s try this again.)

9 Reasons Why System Administrators Think Their Senior Technical Management Can Be Clueless.

From bennywong:

I don’t really see any reason not to start charging for plastic bags. Well, maybe I do. It’d be supremely inconvenient for consumers, but for places like super markets where your purpose of going is to buy groceries, it won’t be hard to bring a couple of canvas bags with you.

Precisely. People will adapt to this stimulus. They will change. That’s why high prices of oil are good for exactly one reason: it encourages positive behavioral change toward efficiency.¹

1. Granted, the fact that it may mean less food for some families suck. This is a consequence and a testimony to the power of economics and proper planning, at both the macro- and microeconomic scale. [↩]

Emphasis mine.

From an interview with Marc Ecko:

Whatever you do in life, be passionate about it. At least once a month, if not every day, reassess what you’re doing and make sure you still love it. If you’re passionate about something others around you may see as a dead end, pave your own way. Be a trailblazer.

From “Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking,” a discussion on mainframe technology:

“Technologies want to survive, and they reinvent themselves to go on,” he said.

From the opinion piece “The Republican Resurrection” by Frank Rich:

Mrs. Clinton is fond of mocking her adversary for offering “just words.” But words can matter, and Mrs. Clinton’s tragedy is that she never realized they could have mattered for her, too. You have to wonder if her Iraq speech would have been greeted with the same shrug if she had tossed away her usual talking points and seized the opportunity to address the war in the same adult way that Mr. Obama addressed race.

Tagging has been a great way for slashdot readers to interact with the moderated stories. My two favorites:

Yes and No

I’m really glad those questions were answered for me.

Failures happen; given the 24×7 support requirement (per 4.5), there will be times when something breaks badly enough that senior wizards will have to connect remotely.

- RFC2870, “Root Name Server Operational Requirements”

Some humorous things I’ve seen around the web lately.

Random statistic:

But what about the other 6% of young people? Spawns of the hellbeast, must be.

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You mean software vendors distribute patches to existing installs?

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This is from the website of a new condo building being built in my neighborhood.

“Where SoHo meets Tribeca” ? You must mean Canal St, but don’t want to make people think of Chinatown or hellish traffic.

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Wow. Who ever would have thought?

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For whatever reason, when I visited this website, my mind made an unconscious decision as to what kind of robot I was interested in…

I’m sitting in a hallway in an engineering building and no one walking by gives even a passing glance to the little dog-like robot that is just looking around.

I love that when you become a geek, special meaning is attached to seeing numbers that are a power of two (and one less).