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> ...Going Home

OMG not familiar with the person being talked about but "going home" resonates with me. leonard cohen wrote some powerful songs in his old age and "going home" is one of them.


> This actually looks great, installing it now to try out.

same. i think it is a superb idea for ubuntu here. hopefully there are tools like this for other OS distros as well.


> consisted of the reg, the joelonsoftware forum and then the inquirer.

that's very selective. here's a few more: digg, fark, slashdot


> A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.

not how it works for me! i have friends on fb that i haven't talked to or seen since high school. i don't use fb proper but it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to. i guess it goes the other around as well.


> it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to

There is something wrong with this for me.. If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around ?

It is a great way to reach someone you want to get in touch with after a really long time, but that scenario is far more rare than people claim when they speak of the 'magic of facebook'.


> If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around

How in the world are you ever going to know if you never contact them again?


:) I guess I just keep a select group of friends that I want to be with. What I don't know wont kill me and all that, but fair enough. Each to their own !


It's not that rare. I met some friends in middle school about 10 years ago. When I move to the US, FB is the place to connect them again because we keep FB connections. A lit of people around is also in the same situation. Like the above comment, you never know.


wow, you've just opened a pandora box :) from the school system, to vegan diet, to parenting, to immigration...


both dystopic and dystopian are synonyms.

btw did you know that grep (as in the unix tool) is in the dictionary? it even says it comes from the operating system.


"Dystopic" [sic!] may lead to misunderstandings. Also the article above states that it isn't an actual word.

You can't even pronounce it. People will only hear "this topic" or something like that.


yep, it's accepted in other fields. the craziest for me has to be the music/sound industry. you could spend months coming up with the right chords just to have some big label or famous person you don't have any relationship with come after you.

this is recent but in design, i read that companies can now own branding colors and themes.


you forgot that some of us are debating the sign-off process as well. the most surprising aspect if you ask me...


>“You’re allowed to put posters up on the wall to help organize your workers, and this can be seen as kind of a digital extension of that,” said Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

This professor completely ignores the sign-off, and I wonder if actually it's really important... Can we really call it a digital-extension of a wall, if it's impossible to put something without 2 approvals?


from her blog:

> This kind of code change happens all the time.

we have all been there.

i think she knew she wasn't following proper procedure. even if it's done "all the time".


if proper procedure isn't enforced, especially if others are routinely encouraged not to follow it, then it isn't proper procedure.


> I'm honestly a little surprised (and worried) about all the commenters who argue Google is in the right here.

i, honestly, want to know why you think otherwise. what she did is wrong.

but assuming she didn't know and that's what the "by the book" process at Google truly is... that's even more concerning


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