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Sugru + neodymium magnets = WANT
(tags: sugru diy tools magnets want toget bike hacks fixing)
Capabilities of Movements and Affordances of Digital Media: Paradoxes of Empowerment | DMLcentral
Paradoxically, it’s possible that the widespread use of digital tools facilitates capabilities in some domains, such as organization, logistics, and publicity, while simultaneously engendering hindrances to [political] movement impacts on other domains, including those related to policy and electoral spheres.
(tags: society politics activism tech internet gezi-park tahrir-square euromaidan occupy)
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Good description of the “hero coder” organisational antipattern.
Now imagine that most of the team is involved in fire-fighting. New recruits see the older recruits getting praised for their brave work in the line-of-fire and they want that kind of praise and reward too. Before long everyone is focused on putting out fires and it is no ones interest to step back and take on the risks that long-term DevOps-focused goals entail.
(tags: coding ops admin hero-coder hero-culture firefighting organisations teams culture)
Open-Sourcing Ssync: An Out-of-the-Box Distributed Rsync
a script to perform divide-and-conquer recursive rsync over SSH
(tags: recursion scripts rsync ssync ssh divide-and-conquer)
Improving compaction in Cassandra with cardinality estimation
nice use of HyperLogLog
(tags: hyperloglog hll algorithms cassandra bloom-filters sstables cardinality)