•           migraine - search.cpan.org   

  DB schema migrator inspired by Rails migrations. Allows developers to store changes to a DB schema in “migration” files, then run the migrator to get all the pending migrations for some DB executed. That allows for easy and automated upgrading of any database used for a given project. Executing migrations just up to a point (as opposed to “up to the latest version”), or applying single migrations (say, applying 4, even if 3 is still unapplied) is also supported.

                           
   

•           Net::OperaLink - search.cpan.org   

                               
   

•           Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science   

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•           Mindfulness-the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2010   

        tags:              brain        neuroscience        psychology        science        learning        mind

                           
   

•           Execution through Processes, Projects and Communities   

  “When we talk about execution- achieving some business outcome- each of us has our own bias for how.  Some of us think about who we will task with an assignment.  Others, particularly if it is a game-changing initiative for our company, will begin to think about the team, the stakeholders and the initiative’s leadership.  For this discussion, we are going to focus on the organizing structure which will most effectively achieve business outcomes. “

        tags:              execution        processes        projects        communities

                           
   

•           perl6/nqp - GitHub   

  This is “Not Quite Perl”—a compiler for quickly generating PIR routines from Perl6-like code.  The key feature of NQP is that it’s designed to be a very small compiler (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]).  Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6, NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine for the virtual machine.

                           
   

•           PC Gaming is a Donor-Supported Industry with the Pretense of Selling a Product - Falkvinge on Infopolicy   

  A “purchase” of a digitally distributed game is a conscious pledge not to download it for free. It’s a decision by the player to financially support the developer, the publisher, and the distributor. Even though they could easily save money and get the exact same experience — or an experience with negligible differences — by pirating the game, the player decides, no, these people deserve my money. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Humble Indie Bundle, a rotating bundle of independently developed games “sold” at a pay-what-you-want price. Donate at least a penny, and you get a link to download games. Once again, the donors know what they’re doing; it’s not the semantic trick of calling it a “purchase” that helps these bundles raise so much money. This isn’t cynical pedantry, though. The fact that PC gaming is a thriving digital media industry supported by voluntary donations is a wonderful thing. It’s living proof that creative endeavors can be financially viable based solely on their fans’ desire to reward the creators, assuming the creators treat their fans with dignity and respect

           
  • Valve and other digital distributors don’t make money because they provide a better service than pirates; they make money because they treat their customers with respect. It turns out that it’s enough to simply match the convenience of piracy, and to avoid treating customers like criminals, to get people to pay the higher (non-zero) price.
                       
           
  • The fact that people pay for it anyway doesn’t mean that they’re buying anything. It means that they’re donating.
                       
       
         
   

•           sorear/niecza - GitHub   

  This is ‘Niecza’, which is a Perl 6 implementation focusing on optimization and efficient implementation research. It targets the Common Language Runtime

                           
   

•           P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The coming war on general computation – Cory Doctorow @ #28C3   

  The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race. The problem is twofold: first, there is no known general-purpose computer that can execute all the programs we can think of except the naughty ones; second, general-purpose computers have replaced every other device in our world. There are no airplanes, only computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are no 3D printers, only computers that drive peripherals. There are no radios, only computers with fast ADCs and DACs and phased-array antennas. Consequently anything you do to “secure” anything with a computer in it ends up undermining the capabilities and security of every other corner of modern human society.

                           
   

•           Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? - Falkvinge on Infopolicy   

  Last night, the United States Senate ignored all such science and voted 86 to 13 that anybody could be imprisoned indefinitely, or even executed, without a trial or charges. 86 to 13! This is what I mean by the United States being already lost. For what happens when it doesn’t matter how much people try to adhere to laws, but can be thrown in jail and even executed anyway? When there’s not even a pretense of a rigged mock trial? I tweeted about that yesterday. I even referenced the Fourth Box. Also, the wordspin has already started to apply this to ordinary dissenters. People who don’t agree with The Man. The indefinite detention and execution thing in the United States will only apply to “terrorists”, but at the same time, ordinary protesters in a rally were just labeled “low-level terrorists”. There’s no rocket science needed to see where this is going

                           
   

•           Why Git is Better Than X   

                               
   

•           SAMSUNG’s Digital World - Support   

                               
 

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