Comments for Mimeographs from the Future http://blog.amber.org Random musings from a particularly random brain. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on The myth of the social network by Jennifer Ethier http://blog.amber.org/2011/01/the-myth-of-the-social-network/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Jennifer Ethier Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:02:00 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=342#comment-347 Interesting point of view Chris! Jeremiah Owyang is not the only one who believes that we use only one context to interact with others. There are people that want us to believe that socializing through different networks and projecting different images is a lack of integrity. It is important that some of us stand up and shed some light on the subject. I agree with you that we divide our social life into contexts. However, I believe that we need more than three contexts to fully manage how people perceive us. Personally, I use a much wider variety including siblings, close friends, department colleagues, soccer teammates, hairdresser, neighbors, bankers and many more… @Michelle, I agree with you that we all have a different combination of contexts. After all, we all have different social lives! I work for a company that is currently developing a “real life social network” which has for objective to remove the gap between our online and offline interactions. It is called Hibe and it will be launched soon! Interesting point of view Chris!
Jeremiah Owyang is not the only one who believes that we use only one context to interact with others. There are people that want us to believe that socializing through different networks and projecting different images is a lack of integrity. It is important that some of us stand up and shed some light on the subject.

I agree with you that we divide our social life into contexts. However, I believe that we need more than three contexts to fully manage how people perceive us. Personally, I use a much wider variety including siblings, close friends, department colleagues, soccer teammates, hairdresser, neighbors, bankers and many more…

@Michelle, I agree with you that we all have a different combination of contexts. After all, we all have different social lives!

I work for a company that is currently developing a “real life social network” which has for objective to remove the gap between our online and offline interactions.

It is called Hibe and it will be launched soon!

]]> Comment on The unbearable heaviness of drivers by petrilli http://blog.amber.org/2011/02/the-unbearable-heaviness-of-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-332 petrilli Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:53:00 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=402#comment-332 Pretty much anything on RedHat is more painful than it should be, but largely because they seem to always be 5 years behind on everything, and the dependencies are insane. You can't install anything without getting another 500MB of stuff you didn't want. Pretty much anything on RedHat is more painful than it should be, but largely because they seem to always be 5 years behind on everything, and the dependencies are insane. You can’t install anything without getting another 500MB of stuff you didn’t want.

]]> Comment on Entropic programming by Michelle Dear http://blog.amber.org/2011/02/entropic-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Michelle Dear Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:19:13 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=396#comment-330 Well, I am impressed. I've never heard of the entropy key usb drive. I just submitted this blog entry to Lifehacker to cover. Let's see what happens. Well, I am impressed. I’ve never heard of the entropy key usb drive.

I just submitted this blog entry to Lifehacker to cover. Let’s see what happens.

]]> Comment on The unbearable heaviness of drivers by Michelle Dear http://blog.amber.org/2011/02/the-unbearable-heaviness-of-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Michelle Dear Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:10:07 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=402#comment-329 Don't bitch. Haven't you ever tried to install Java on Redhat? Oh yeah - you're up to date on all the drivers. Then, you have to go find elebenty-billion more somewhere in space and install them. Ugh! But yes, I know what you are feeling. And of course, some idiot put it in a folder that makes absolutely no sense. Sometimes I am glad I left technology. :-) Don’t bitch.

Haven’t you ever tried to install Java on Redhat? Oh yeah — you’re up to date on all the drivers.

Then, you have to go find elebenty-billion more somewhere in space and install them.

Ugh!

But yes, I know what you are feeling. And of course, some idiot put it in a folder that makes absolutely no sense.

Sometimes I am glad I left technology. :-)

]]> Comment on IntelliJ IDEA 10 performance on Mac OS X by Anonymous http://blog.amber.org/2010/12/intellij-idea-10-performance-on-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Anonymous Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:03:19 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=329#comment-321 -Xincgc helps a lot as well. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Java/Reference/Java_VMOptionsRef/Articles/JavaVirtualMachineOptions.html –Xincgc helps a lot as well.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Java/Reference/Java_VMOptionsRef/Articles/JavaVirtualMachineOptions.html

]]> Comment on Rethinking Scala by Tweets that mention Rethinking Scala – Mimeographs from the Future -- Topsy.com http://blog.amber.org/2011/01/rethinking-scala/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Tweets that mention Rethinking Scala – Mimeographs from the Future -- Topsy.com Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:58:13 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=392#comment-317 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nobody, Planet Clojure. Planet Clojure said: Rethinking Scala http://goo.gl/fb/hRbDc #clojure [...] […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nobody, Planet Clojure. Planet Clojure said: Rethinking Scala http://goo.gl/fb/hRbDc #clojure […]

]]> Comment on It was bound to happen eventually by petrilli http://blog.amber.org/2011/01/it-was-bound-to-happen-eventually/comment-page-1/#comment-308 petrilli Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:00:32 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=390#comment-308 Someone on Twitter looked me up and let me know. The wonders of social networking! Someone on Twitter looked me up and let me know. The wonders of social networking!

]]> Comment on It was bound to happen eventually by isomer http://blog.amber.org/2011/01/it-was-bound-to-happen-eventually/comment-page-1/#comment-307 isomer Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:27:39 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=390#comment-307 How did you find out someone did that? How did you find out someone did that?

]]> Comment on I’m Sorry by Hope and change; disillusionment and dispair – Mimeographs from the Future http://blog.amber.org/2010/12/im-sorry/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Hope and change; disillusionment and dispair – Mimeographs from the Future Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:05:57 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=313#comment-290 [...] the start of Decem­ber 2010, I wrote about my dis­il­lu­sion­ment with Obama and the Demo­c­ra­tic party, but also the unrav­el­ing of the demos in democ­racy [...] […] the start of Decem­ber 2010, I wrote about my dis­il­lu­sion­ment with Obama and the Demo­c­ra­tic party, but also the unrav­el­ing of the demos in democ­racy […]

]]> Comment on The mythical golden paycheck of the Fed by petrilli http://blog.amber.org/2010/12/the-mythical-golden-paycheck-of-the-fed/comment-page-1/#comment-288 petrilli Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:40:59 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/?p=335#comment-288 I just assume that the additional money for Houstonians is to pay for fresh shirts and deodorant. But perhaps that is my rather slanted view of the city. Austin has definitely changed, and not necessarily for the better. It's still a great place, but not as great as it once was. My experience in DC, and this is obviously somewhat skewed, is that in fact at the top of the scale it's actually worse than lower. For example, the CIO of a large federal agency might be $200k, where someone managing a similarly large organization in the private sector might be making 2-3x that pay rate. I suppose my point is that the pay scale is not as clear as one might hope, and that rash generalizations are useless. I still wonder why Houston is such an outlier financially. It's likely that in many places the government can pay competitive salaries, but in DC, they can't. I just assume that the additional money for Houstonians is to pay for fresh shirts and deodorant. But perhaps that is my rather slanted view of the city. Austin has definitely changed, and not necessarily for the better. It’s still a great place, but not as great as it once was.

My experience in DC, and this is obviously somewhat skewed, is that in fact at the top of the scale it’s actually worse than lower. For example, the CIO of a large federal agency might be $200k, where someone managing a similarly large organization in the private sector might be making 2-3x that pay rate. I suppose my point is that the pay scale is not as clear as one might hope, and that rash generalizations are useless.

I still wonder why Houston is such an outlier financially. It’s likely that in many places the government can pay competitive salaries, but in DC, they can’t.

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