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The idea is to create a primer as a tutorial for a laymen who wants to understand the players, changes, big events and contributors.  Their motivations, impacts, strategies and outcomes.

 It should be written as a readable narrative with sections that build on each other, do not assume knowledge of the field or its players.  Assume the reader wants a base from which to explore individual topics in this broad arc.

 Please don't introduce terms or acronyms that are part of this space without explaining them and their context and how they relate to the space.  Stay way from too much insider jargon without explanation of what and why, concepts and acronyms should be introduced with context and  explanation.  Do not use industry or jargon without plain english explanations. 

Terms, nodes, and concepts in the ecosystem are important, but being able to understand these things in the context of the topic is really the ultimate point.

Take special case to use specific examples, analogies, metaphors and comparison

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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2021 Update: Easiest option is Justin's repo and image

Just run this from your Mac terminal and it'll drop you in a container with full permissions on the Docker VM. This also works for Docker for Windows for getting in Moby Linux VM (doesn't work for Windows Containers).

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

more info: https://github.com/justincormack/nsenter1

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My resignation from freenode staff
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I joined the freenode staff in March 2019 [1].

Before I joined the staff, Freenode Ltd was sold [2] to a person named
Andrew Lee as part of a sponsorship deal. The informal terms of that