PUBLIC MARKS with tag communauté

Occupy.here is more about supporting an emerging community through decentralized hardware and location-specific websites.

However, it's a question of what's most productive with our time. Every moment we waste arguing over what REST means could have been spent discussing how to properly build APIs instead. But why bother being productive when we can be critical?

I originally characterized “sociopath” as will-to-power people. Let me add a few more characteristics. First, sociopaths are driven by unsentimental observation of external realities, no matter how unpleasant. Second, they use the information they acquire through reality-grounding in skilled ways. Third, their distrust of subsuming communities and groups leads them to adopt personal moralities. Whether good or evil, the morality of a sociopath is something he or she takes responsibility for.

If it sounds like I'm saying Apache was a mistake, I'm not. Apache was a big part in the success of CouchDB, without it CouchDB would not have enjoyed the early success it did. But in my opinion it's reached a point where the consensus based approach has limited the competitiveness of the project. It's not personal, it's business.

The operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system temporarily shut down cell service last night in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by a BART police officer, a spokesman for the system said today.

Lots of the activity going on in London is based on open source warfare precepts.  Much more going on here than a simple riot or looting.  It's a learning lab. 

Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. We are activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers interested in new ways to promote action, intervention, and awareness through a participatory research model.

When we first started Airbnb, I told my mom about our plans for the business and she said, “Are you crazy? I’d never do that.” But when I told my late grandfather he said, “Of course! Everyone used to stay in each others’ homes.” We’re bringing back this age-old idea with new technology. Now each day, you and the rest of the community are creating meaningful connections around the world.

Find a grower or someone with some land to share.

All comments on the Big Picture are now powered by Facebook. […]-- The quality of comments should improve as people use their real names.

As I realize that open source is going to define my professional life (and

likely my personal one as well), my tolerance for assholes gets smaller and

smaller.

Giving site visitors an easy-to-find, easy-to-use “report an error” button is a way of saying to them that you care about accuracy, you want to know when you make errors, and you’re conscientious about fixing them. It’s like putting a “you can trust this” badge on everything you publish.

SwiftRiver is a media aggregation and filtering tool. It

aggregates sources such as Twitter, blog, email and SMS, and provides features that help

identify relationships and trends in the incoming data sets. Through semantic analysis,

incoming content can be automatically categorized for review.

It is far far easier to snipe from the sidelines than it is to put in the effort to attend telcons and face-to-face meetings, to engage on mailing lists, to write specifications and implementations and tutorials.