Notices by Kamalavelan (demonshreder@mastodon.xyz)

Thank you @prashere for sharing what you have read so far from the #ZeroMQ guide ( http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all ). It is quite exciting to think about this #decentralized and #distributed #communication #system.

#P2P

@prashere

Three #books I'd like to complete #reading as soon as possible -

#SICP - Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs
https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/

#ThinkBayes - #Bayesian #statistics and #inference using Python.
http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/

#ThinkComplexity - Exploring #complexity theory and complex #systems using #graph based models in #Python
http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-complexity-2e/

Well said Charlie

Found an amazing resource on how to do mass edits to OSM

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/escada/diary/28268

Technical competency as a hindrance to contributions to the digital commons is a misnomer. You have to identify with a language, tool or free software project. If you love the linux kernel so much you will contribute. Competency only decides the kind of contribution. You will either introduce new features, fix bugs, clean old code or just write documentation but contribute you will.

Now what do you want to identify with?

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/

Gamers are being delivered half finished games. These kinds of management failures can be prevented through a democratic model of management which is present in cooperatives. Valve Inc is an operational cooperative through their flat hierarchy and they are the market leaders in keep their customers happy and surprised.

Valve's Employee Handbook for more on how they work - http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-gig-economy-is-the-new-term-for-serfdom/

@prashere

@prashere @arunisaac http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/march/dravidian-languages.html

@prashere This changed world was unavailable to Swartz. To Elbakyan, it was obvious what to do with Sci-Hub. She would gain help from hackers all around the world to keep the ship sailing ( eg https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ this came up last week).

Here I could only accept that world was as it was and Swartz did the best he could but was murdered. This acceptance, created in me, an empathy, which fueled my ideals. This would be impossible for me without the practical methods of Advaita.

@prashere Karma is the reality of the world. Where Aaron Swartz failed, Alexandra Elbakyan succeeded. They were very similar in their ideals and approaches but the primary difference (IMO) was that TPB wasn't raided one more time. The last raid of TPB which caused it to shut down for 2-3 months, gave birth to the swarm of FOSS infrastructure popping up everywhere, people coming together to share resources against a common enemy eg. https://github.com/unblocked-pw/unblocked-pw.github.io