Kas Thomas of CMS Watch riffs on “The UNIX Way”, principals summarized by Mike Gancarz:
1. Small is beautiful.
2. Make each program do one thing well.
3. Build a prototype as soon as possible.
4. Choose portability over efficiency.
5. Store data in flat text files.
6. Use software leverage to your advantage.
7. Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability.
8. Avoid captive user interfaces.
9. Make every program a filter
Read the whole piece.
Salon.com: Who are the wealth creators?:
Material production is only one of many activities that enrich a society. Public goods like safety and utilities and infrastructure and parks are part of the wealth that we share in common. So are many private goods that sometimes are best provided by the public, like public education and inexpensive healthcare.
By all means, then, let us celebrate virtuous capital owners and visionary investors as “wealth creators” on Labor Day. And let us celebrate as well as the other creators of private wealth, on the assembly line and in the office cubicle and in the janitorial closet, and the creators of public wealth in the form of roads and subways and parks, and the police officers and soldiers without whom a high level of public and private wealth could neither be created nor preserved. There are criminals and parasites among all classes of society, but most of us are wealth creators, and we deserve to be recognized as such.
FT.com: US families turn to food stamps as wages drop
NYTimes: Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
Change.org: 5 Things You Absolutely Must Know About Homelessness
True Homeless Stories: HearMyStory.org
(via Susie Madrak)
Hope you had a good Labor Day!